Carolingian Civilization

This fascinating and wide-ranging volume explores lay involvement in literary and artistic activity in early medieval Europe. Leading historians demonstrate that the learned laity, both women as well as men, contributed much more as writers and patrons...

This is the translation of an extraordinary and enigmatic narrative of Carolingian history, which should interest historians of politics, religion and literature in equal measure. Radbertus' 'Epitaph for Arsenius' is both a personal and...

Opening up Carolingian history to a new generation, this book draws on recently translated primary sources to examine the collapse of an early medieval kingdom.

<p>Prophetic and apocalyptic rhetoric play critical roles in the development and articulation of political authority in the reigns of Charlemagne (d. 814) and Louis the Pious (d. 840). The rhetorical authority derived from claims of receiving revelation,...