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A comprehensive and accessible survey of the great Carolingian empire, which dominated western Europe in the eighth and ninth centuries.

When the legendary Frankish king and emperor Charlemagne died in 814 he left behind a dominion and a legacy unlike anything seen in Western Europe since the fal

These essays examine the ideas that were important to monks and the intersections between the monks and the secular world. The volume explores the ideas and rea