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1	Charlemagne: The Formation of a European Identity more books like this by Rosamond McKitterick add to wishlist Charlemagne is often claimed as the greatest ruler in Europe before Napoleon. In this magisterial new study, Rosamond McKitterick re-examines Charlemagne the ruler and his reputation. She analyses the narrative representations of Charlemagne produced after his death, and thereafter focuses on the evidence from Charlemagne's lifetime concerning the ... see all copies from $9.00! new only from $14.00! \| SVS
2	The Carolingians and the Written Word more books like this by Rosamond McKitterick add to wishlist This pioneering book studies the function and status of the written word in Carolingian society in France and Germany in the eighth and ninth centuries. It demonstrates that literacy was by no means confined to a clerical elite, but was dispersed in lay society and used for government and administration, and for ordinary legal transactions among ... see all copies from $10.12! new only from $14.00! \| SVS
3	Daily Life in the World of Charlemagne: With Expanded Footnotes / more books like this by Pierre Riche, Jo A McNamara (Translator) add to wishlist In the growth of towns and the revival of commerce, historians have seen the development of a bourgeois and capitalist Europe, but Pierre Riche reminds us that Carolingians saw a world of forest and wasteland, in which scattered castles and villages were see all copies from $3.14! new only from $21.62! \| SVS
4	The Frankish Kingdoms Under the Carolingians, 751-987 more books like this by Rosamond McKitterick add to wishlist An exciting examination of the entire history of the Carolingian 'dynasty' in western Europe. The author shows the whole period to be one of immense political, religious. cultural and intellectual dynamism; not only did it lay the foundations of the governmental and administrative institutions of Europe and the organisation of the Church, but it ... see all copies from $15.70! new only from $95.02! \| first editions
5	The Crucible of Europe: The Ninth and Tenth Centuries in European History more books like this by Geoffrey Barraclough add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
6	Carolingian Portraits: A Study in the Ninth Century more books like this by Eleanor S Duckett add to wishlist Recreates the 9th-century world of Charlemagne through portraits of outstanding figures of the age see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Carolingian Empire more books like this by Heinrich Fichtenau add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.24! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Charlemagne's Courtier: The Complete Einhard more books like this by Paul Dutton (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $9.20! new only from $81.44! \| first editions
9	The Emperor Charlemagne more books like this by Russell Chamberlin add to wishlist Few men have exerted such a lasting influence on the course of Western history as has Charlemagne (742-814). At the height of his power in the early ninth century Charlemagne, King of the Franks and Lombards and Emperor of the Romans, ruled all the Christian lands of western Europe except the British Isles and southern Italy and Sicily. ... see all copies from $2.90! new only from $12.82! \| first editions
10	Gentle Voices of Teachers: Aspects of Learning in the Carolingian a more books like this by Richard Eugene Sullivan add to wishlist see all copies from $2.66! new only from $5.09!
11	Diplomatic Studies in Latin and Greek Documents from the Carolingian Age more books like this by Luitpold Wallach add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $66.33! \| signed copies \| first editions
12	A Tainted Mantle: Hercules and the Classical Tradition at the Carolingian Court more books like this by Lawrence Nees add to wishlist "A Tainted Mantle" focuses on two works of Carolingian literature and art, Theodulf of Orleans' poem "Contra Iudices", and the ivory throne identified as the Cathedra Petri (the Throne of St Peter). Both works feature the pagan hero Hercules, showing him not as a positive model for Carolingian rulers, as has often been suggested, but in fact as an ... see all copies from $7.10! new only from $42.00! \| first editions
13	The Carolingian Economy more books like this by Adriaan Verhulst add to wishlist This book is about the economy of the Carolingian empire (753-877), which extended from the Pyrenees and the northern shores of the Mediterranean to the North Sea, and from the Atlantic coast to the Elbe and Saale rivers. It is the first comprehensive evaluation of the topic in English in over twenty years. The study of the Carolingian empire as ... see all copies from $22.50! new only from $26.89! \| first editions \| SVS
14	The Carolingians: A Family Who Forged Europe more books like this by Pierre Riche add to wishlist Pierre Riche traces the emergence of Europe from the seventh to the early eleventh century, the period that witnessed the rise, fall, and revival of the Carolinian Empire. It was during this time the first contours of a broad new civilization and the first visible signs of European unity are discernable. Until the seventh century Europe was simply ... see all copies from $7.72! new only from $21.62!
15 view cover	Carolingian Culture: Emulation and Innovation more books like this by Rosamond McKitterick add to wishlist This volume of specially commissioned essays takes as its theme the legacy of Rome in Carolingian culture in eighth- and ninth-century Europe. No such comprehensive survey of this kind exists in any language. The book is made the more unusual by departing from the customary stress on the concept of renewal to emphasise the enormous creativity and ... see all copies from $38.58! new only from $44.75! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	The Politics of Dreaming in the Carolingian Empire more books like this by Paul Edward Dutton add to wishlist Between the reigns of Charlemagne and Charles the Fat, Europe underwent a series of alarming and unsettling changes. Civil war broke out, royal authority was divided, and the brightest of men and women began to entertain nightmarish thoughts of the corruption and collapse of their world. Amidst the ruin of their shaken and shattered assumptions, ... see all copies from $11.88! new only from $12.50! \| SVS
17	Carolingian Essays: Andrew W. Mellon Lectures in Early Christian Studies more books like this by Uta-Renate Blumenthal (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $20.00! new only from $59.95! \| first editions
18 view cover	History and Memory in the Carolingian World more books like this by Rosamond McKitterick add to wishlist The writing and reading of history in the early Middle Ages form the key themes of this book. The primary focus is on the remarkable manifestations of historical writing in relation to historical memory in the Frankish kingdoms of the eighth and ninth centuries. It considers the audiences for history in the Frankish kingdoms, the recording of ... see all copies from $19.98! new only from $29.57!
19 view cover	Gregorian Chant and the Carolingians more books like this by Kenneth Levy add to wishlist A world-renowned scholar of plainchant, Kenneth Levy has spent a portion of his career investigating the nature and ramifications of this repertory's shift from an oral tradition to the written versions dating to the tenth century. In "Gregorian Chant and the Carolingians", which represents the culmination of his research, Levy seeks to change ... see all copies from $78.75! new only from $78.75! \| SVS
20	Carolingian art more books like this by Jean Hubert, Jean Porcher, Wolfgang Fritz Volbach add to wishlist see all copies from $40.00! first editions
21	The French Under the Merovingians and the Carlovingians more books like this by J -C -L Simonde De Sismondi add to wishlist see all copies from $9.84! new only from $24.98!
22	Carolingian Chronicles: Royal Frankish Annals and Nithard's Histories more books like this by Bernhard Walter Scholz add to wishlist see all copies from $33.00! new only from $85.00! \| SVS
23 view cover	Frankland: The Franks and the World of the Early Middle Ages; Essays in Honour of Dame Jinty Nelson more books like this by Paul Fouracre (Editor), David Ganz (Editor) add to wishlist This title contains essays to celebrate the career of Dame Janet Nelson, leading early medieval historian, a very highly respected and popular figure. It consists of contributions of the very highest academic standard by prominent scholars including Wendy Davies, Paul Fouracre, John Gillingham, Susan Reynolds. Contributions are of the very highest ... see all copies from $65.70! new only from $97.27!
24	Hincmar of Laon more books like this by Peter R McKeon add to wishlist see all copies from $6.95!
25 view cover	Water the Word Vol 1: Commentary more books like this by Susan A Keefe add to wishlist Water and the Word focuses on a genre of literature written for the education of the Carolingian clergy: Carolingian baptismal instructions. This literature has never been brought together and studied collectively in the context of the books in which it circulated. This comprehensive study has three major objectives. One is to describe the codices ... see all copies from $63.17! new only from $63.17!

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