Drawing on the 8th-century chronicle, the Liber Historiae Francorum, this book presents a highly accurate view of the society in which Charlemagne's ancestors s

This pioneering study explores early medieval Frankish identity as a window into the formation of a distinct Western conception of ethnicity. Focusing on the tu

Without the complex military machine that his forebears had built up over the course of the eighth century, it would have been impossible for Charlemagne to rev

Saint-Maurice d'Agaune - Gudme - Vistula - Francia - Maastricht - Aachen - Gaul - Cordoba.

This 2004 book looks at the writing and reading of history during the early middle ages.