Chapter 3 Flavius Josephus: A Carolingian Church Father? * Richard M. Pollard In 794, a great congregation and council took place at Frankfurt, under the stern but benevolent eye of Charlemagne himself. This council, made up of an impressive number of bishops, abbots, as well as secular worthies and papal legates convened to * We thank Yves Gingras, Josh Timmermann, Faith Wallis, Evina Steinová, Michael Moore, Marios Costambeys, Jesse Keskiaho, and Lydia Philpott, as well as the (other) members of the audience of the various presentations noted below, and finally the anonymous reviewers for their inspiration and assistance. Earlier versions of this research were presented at the Networks of Manuscripts, Networks of Texts (ING Huygens) conference in October 2020; at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds in July 2021, 2020, and 2017; at the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo in May 2019; at the Jean-Marie Fecteau colloquium at UQAM in March 2018; and finally at the McGill Medievalists Seminar Series in Feb. 2018. This essay presents an abriged and early version of the work that will appear asJosephus and the Church Fathers in the Early Middle Ages: How Wide Is the Canon?, (Bloomsbury). A fuller summary of this work has already been published as Richard Matthew Pollard and Anne-Gaëlle Weber, “Le canon des Pères à l’époque carolingienne et la place de Flavius Josèphe,” Revue d’Études Augustiniennes et Patristiques 67, no. 2 (2021), 275–318.