If the Papacy thought that it would escape the kinds of Church-State problems that it had experienced in its relationship with the Emperors in Constantinople under the new alliance with the Carolingians, it was sadly mistaken. Problems emerged in a variety of realms, including Iconoclasm and the conduct of the missions. Taken from the Roman Forum Gardone Symposium 2007 - Christianity and the Carolinigians (751-896).