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

Despite the wealth of scholarship in recent decades on medieval women, we still know much less about the experiences of women in the early Middle Ages than we d

This book is not a conventional political narrative of Carolingian history shaped by narrative sources, capitularies, and charter material. It is structured, in

Collection of essays examining lay involvement in literary and artistic activity in the Carolingian Empire.

Re-evaluates the political integration and Christianization of Saxony following its violent conquest (772-804) by Charlemagne.