Overview :Forged in an age of faith and war and tempered by great statesmen, religious leaders and artists, medieval civilizations witnessed remarkabl... Read More
Overview :To understand Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire properly it is necessary to have knowledge of his historiographic... Read More
Overview :This pioneering book studies the function and status of the written word in Carolingian society in France and Germany in the eighth and nint... Read More
Overview :Charlemagne is often claimed as the greatest ruler in Europe before Napoleon. This magisterial study re-examines Charlemagne the ruler and h... Read More
Overview :The book investigates the ways in which literacy was important in early medieval Europe, and examines the context of literacy, its uses, lev... Read More
Overview :The Early Middle Ages (400-1000) was one of the most dynamic and crucial periods in the formation of Europe. It covers the transition from t... Read More
Overview :An exciting examination of the entire history of the Carolingian 'dynasty' in western Europe. The author shows the whole period to be one of... Read More
Overview :Historical writing of the early middle ages tends to be regarded as little more than a possible source of facts, but Rosamond McKitterick es... Read More
Overview :This study reveals the remarkable quantity of varied forms and new types of history written in the Frankish realms of Western Europe during ... Read More
Overview :This volume of The New Cambridge Medieval History covers most of the period of Frankish and Carolingian dominance in western Europe. It was ... Read More
Overview :The Codex epistolaris Carolinus preserves ninety-nine letters, dated between 739 and 791 and sent by the popes to the Frankish king Charlema... Read More