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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 $17.58! new only from $20.25! \| SVS
2	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 outposts against the savagery of nature, bands of outlaws, and a myriad of pagan superstitions ... see all copies from $4.19! new only from $19.95! \| SVS
3	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 $72.75! new only from $104.21!
4	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 $5.39! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	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 $1.99! new only from $4.44! \| first editions \| SVS
6	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 $2.55! new only from $2.55! \| first editions
7	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 $25.65! new only from $25.65! \| SVS
8	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 $19.90! new only from $44.75! \| first editions \| SVS
9	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 ... see all copies from $7.66! new only from $21.62!
10	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 $8.00! new only from $16.50! \| first editions
11	Charlemagne's Courtier: The Complete Einhard more books like this by Paul Dutton (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $6.17! new only from $24.33!
12	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 $29.61! new only from $35.99! \| SVS
13	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 $4.75! first editions
14 view cover	History and Politics in Late Carolingian and Ottonian Europe: The Chronicle of Regino of Prum and Adalbert of Magdeburg more books like this by Regino, Simon MacLean (Editor) add to wishlist Abbot Regino of Prum (d.915) was the last great historian of the Carolingian Empire, which spanned around a million square kilometres of continental western Europe during the eighth and ninth centuries. His chronicle is the essential account of the empire's collapse, while its brief continuation by Adalbert, archbishop of Magdeburg, is one of the ... see all copies from $27.38! new only from $27.38! \| SVS
15 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 $28.25! new only from $28.25! \| SVS
16 view cover	Lay Intellectuals in the Carolingian World more books like this by Patrick Wormald (Editor), Janet L Nelson (Editor) add to wishlist This fascinating and wide-ranging collection of essays examines lay involvement in literary and artistic activity in the Carolingian Empire from Charlemagne to Charles the Bald, and in England from Alfred to Edgar. It explores a diverse range of Latin and vernacular texts written by secular authors, informing contemporary debate about the ... see all copies from $82.70! new only from $87.62! \| SVS
17 view cover	Images, Iconoclasm, and the Carolingians more books like this by Thomas F X Noble add to wishlist In the year 726 C.E., the Byzantine emperor Leo III issued an edict declaring images to be idols, forbidden by Exodus, and ordering all such images in churches to be destroyed. Thus was set off the first wave of Byzantine iconoclasm, which ran its violent course until 787, when the underlying issues were temporarily resolved at the Second Council ... see all copies from $49.75! new only from $49.75!
18	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
19 view cover	Province and Empire: Brittany and the Carolingians more books like this by Julia M H Smith, Rosamond McKitterick (Editor), Christine Carpenter (Editor) add to wishlist This book offers new thinking about the processes of political and cultural change in the early Middle Ages. The main focus is on relations between the centre and periphery of the Carolingian empire, in particular on the development of Brittany as a territorial principality in the ninth and tenth centuries. A major theme is the interaction of ... see all copies from $47.71! new only from $47.71! \| SVS
20 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 $58.71! new only from $63.81!
21	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 $11.67! first editions
22 view cover	Province and Empire more books like this by Julia M H Smith add to wishlist This book offers new thinking about the processes of political and cultural change in the early Middle Ages. The main focus is on relations between the centre and periphery of the Carolingian empire, in particular on the development of Brittany as a territorial principality in the ninth and tenth centuries. A major theme is the interaction of ... see all copies from $115.56! new only from $115.56! \| SVS
23	Carolingian Chronicles: Royal Frankish Annals and Nithard's Histories more books like this by Bernhard Walter Scholz add to wishlist see all copies from $5.16! new only from $85.00!
24	Hincmar of Laon more books like this by Peter R McKeon add to wishlist see all copies from $6.95!
25 view cover	From Ducatus to Regnum: Ruling Bavaria Under the Merovingians and Early Carolingians more books like this by Carl I Hammer add to wishlist Bavaria was a very important country during the early Middle Ages. Its territory included much of the modern German state but also reached across the Alps into what are now Austria and northern Italy. Bavaria thus occupied a strategic position between the rival kingdoms of the Franks and the Langobards. It was ruled by powerful dukes who had close ... see all copies from $111.80! new only from $111.80!

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