The most comprehensive contemporaneous record of the rise and fall of the Carolingian Empire

IT IS 742. The throne is empty; the pagan states are in rebellion; Charles Martel's widow and youngest son have been imprisoned, and trust between Carloman and

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

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

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