Introduction to the Carolingian Age

Introduction to the Carolingian Age provides an accessible history of western Europe in the eighth and ninth centuries, when arguably a truly European civilization emerged out of the transformed, former world of the Roman Empire.

Autorentext

Cullen J. Chandler is the Frank and Helen Lowry Professor of History at Lycoming College in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, USA, where he also serves as director of the Lycoming Scholars program. He researches Carolingian political and cultural history and is the author of Charlemagne: Already a Legend (2022), Charlemagne s Table: The Carolingian Royal Court and Food Culture (2020), and Carolingian Catalonia: politics, culture and identity in an imperial province, 778-987 (2019), among other studies.

Klappentext

Introduction to the Carolingian Age provides an accessible history of western Europe in the eighth and ninth centuries, when arguably a truly European civilization emerged out of the transformed, former world of the Roman Empire.

Inhalt

Prologue: Late Antiquity 1. The Frankish World 2. The Age of Charlemagne 3. Louis the Pious and Imperium Christianum 4. Life and Society 5. The Family Business (840-876) 6. The End of the Carolingian Empire (877-888) 7. Epilogue: The Dawn of a New Age