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==== Commerce ====
* [[Clove]]s, [[ginger]], [[black pepper]], and other Eastern spices are available for purchase in the marketplace at [[Mainz]]. The spices are brought to the city by [[Jews|Jewish]] traveling [[merchant]]s, known as the [[Radhanite]]s, who have contacts in the international [[trade]] between the [[Christianity|Christian]] and [[Islam]]ic world (approximate date).

==== Religion ====
* [[January 19]] &ndash; [[Pope Benedict VI]] is consecrated as the 134th [[pope]] of the [[Catholic Church]]. He is installed at [[Rome]] with the approval of Otto I and becomes a [[puppet ruler]] of the Holy Roman Empire. The Roman aristocracy resents Otto's dominance in Roman civil and [[Ecclesiology|ecclesiastical]] affairs.<ref>Roger Collins (2009). ''Keepers of the keys of heaven: A History of the Papacy'', p. 187 (Basic Books).</ref>
* In the Council of [[Winchester]], Edgar I accepts a 'Monastic Agreement' (called the ''[[Regularis Concordia (Winchester)|Regularis Concordia]]''). The document is compiled by Bishop [[Æthelwold of Winchester|Æthelwold]] and serves as a rule for how [[Christian monasticism|monastic life]] should be performed.
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