Dr. John Rao first takes a detailed look at the Germanic West at the time of the Papal alliance with the Carolingian Family of the Kingdom of the Franks. He examines the complex and intense effort at Romanization and Christianization of a still highly Germanic world under Pippin, Charles the Great, Louis the Pious and their children from the 750's through until the middle of the 800's. Taken from the Roman Forum Gardone Symposium 2007 - Christianity and the Carolinigians (751-896).