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Carolingians
Carolingians , dynasty of Frankish rulers, founded in the 7th cent. by Pepin of Landen , who, as mayor of the palace, ruled the East Frankish Kingdom of Austrasia for Dagobert I. His descendants, Pepin of Heristal , Charles Martel , Carloman , and Pepin the Short , continued to govern the terri... Read more
Carolingian architecture and art
Carolingian architecture and art art forms and structures created by the Carolingians . Toward the beginning of the Carolingian Period, in the 8th cent., a gradual change appeared in Western culture and art, a change that later reached its apex under Charlemagne . Carolingian Architecture ... Read more
Arnulf
Arnulf , c.850-899, Carolingian emperor (896-99), king of the East Franks (887-99), illegitimate son of Carloman of Bavaria. In 887 he led the rebellion of the kingdom of the East Franks (Germany) against his uncle, Carolingian Emperor Charles III , and was proclaimed their king. He repulsed the ... Read more
capitularies
capitularies , decrees and written commands of the Carolingian kings of the Franks, so called because they were divided into capitula, or chapters. Both legislative and administrative, they were the chief written instrument of royal authority. The ordinances were issued either by the king alone or... Read more
Austrasia
Austrasia , northeastern portion of the Merovingian kingdom of the Franks in the 6th, 7th, and 8th cent., comprising, in general, parts of E France, W Germany, and the Netherlands, with its capital variously at Metz, Reims, and Soissons. It originated in the partition (511) of the realm of the Fra... Read more
Herstal
Herstal , Fr. Héristal, commune (1991 pop. 36,451), Liège prov., E Belgium, on the Meuse River, an industrial suburb of Liège. Herstal is the center of Belgium's armaments industry. Other manufactures include motor vehicles, aircraft engines, and electrical equipment. The city... Read more
Ottonian art
Ottonian art , art produced (c.900-1050) in the East Frankish kingdom of Germany known, after the emperors Otto (936-1002), as the Ottonian kingdom. Influenced by Byzantine and Carolingian forms, Ottonian basilicas, such as St. Michael at Hildesheim (1001-36), are simple, blocklike, symmetrical stru... Read more
Saint Benedict of Aniane
Saint Benedict of Aniane c.750-821, French abbot who became a monastic adviser to Louis I . He first founded (c.780) an austere monastic community at Aniane in Languedoc, based on Eastern asceticism. In 799, he founded a large monastery based on the more moderate Benedictine Rule (see Benedict, S... Read more
Treaty of Mersen
Treaty of Mersen 870, redivision of the Carolingian empire by the sons of Louis I , Charles the Bald (later Charles II ) of the West Franks (France) and Louis the German of the East Franks (Germany), signed at Mersen (Dutch Meersen ), now in the Netherlands. The treaty superseded the tripartit... Read more
Capetians
Capetians , royal house of France that ruled continuously from 987 to 1328; it takes its name from Hugh Capet . Related branches of the family (see Valois ; Bourbon ) ruled France until the final deposition of the monarchy in the 19th cent. The first historical ancestor was Robert the Strong , c... Read more

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Carolingian architecture and art
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Carolingian architecture and art art forms and structures...Carolingians . Toward the beginning of the Carolingian Period, in the 8th cent., a gradual...reached its apex under Charlemagne . Carolingian Architecture The new architecture...
Carolingian renaissance
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Carolingian renaissance Cultural revival in France and Italy under the encouragement of Charlemagne . Having enlarged and enriched the Frankish...
Western Europe
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...denaro, denier, Pfenning. From Carolingian times (c. 795), the most widely...x2014; originally equal in value to the Carolingian pound weight of silver (489.51 g...x2014; which was one-half of the old Carolingian pound). The French livre tournois...
Carolingians
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Charles the Bald), founded the French Carolingian dynasty, which ruled, with interruptions...941-86), and Louis V . In the Carolingian period, a landed economy was firmly...patrons of the arts. He encouraged the Carolingian Renaissance, a return to Roman classicism...
Hugh Capet
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...After the death of Louis V, last Carolingian king of France, the nobles and prelates...elected him king, setting aside the last Carolingian claimant, Charles I of Lower Lorraine...death—over deposition of the Carolingian archbishop of Reims.
German art and architecture
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...stylistic currents of Western Europe. The Carolingian and Ottonian Periods Carolingian architecture and art are commonly considered...see Early Christian art and architecture ). Carolingian ivory book covers and diptychs were also notable...
French architecture
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Early Christian, Merovingian, and Carolingian buildings. The Roman basilica form predominated and, during the Carolingian period, was greatly enriched by...Architecture Innovations manifested in Carolingian buildings gave rise to the architecture...
Louis I
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...last ruler to maintain the unity of the Carolingian Empire. Born in Aquitaine, Louis I...Church reform and in the expansion of the Carolingian intellectual revival initiated a generation...extensive but different in nature. Earlier Carolingian reforms dealing with the Church had...
Holy Roman Empire
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Roman emperor in the West. According to Carolingian theory, the Roman Empire had merely...the death of Arnulf (899), the last Carolingian to hold the imperial title, until Otto...emperor, he renewed the traditions of the Carolingian empire that had been eroding for decades...
Arnulf
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Arnulf , c.850-899, Carolingian emperor (896-99), king of...Germany) against his uncle, Carolingian Emperor Charles III , and was proclaimed...grandfather Charlemagne, was the last Carolingian to be crowned emperor.

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Carolingian art
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art Carolingian art. The art and architecture of the...cultural revival. The most important Carolingian building to survive largely intact is...Chapel at Aachen. Little remains of Carolingian mural paintings or mosaics, but several...
Carolingian
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Carolingian. Term describing the style of architecture...Charlemagne (800–14). Carolingian architecture is generally accepted as...bounding the Rhine. Stylistically, Carolingian architecture looked back to Early Christian...
Carolingian Schools
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church Carolingian Schools. During the reign of Charlemagne (768–814) there...period, however, were connected with cathedrals and monasteries. The Carolingian schools were not outstanding for originality of thought, but they restored...
Carolingian empire
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Carolingian empire The collection of territories in Western Europe ruled by the...III in 800 and made his court a centre of learning (the “Carolingian Renaissance”). After the division of the empire by the...
Verdun, Treaty of
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...Louis the Pious, died in 840 he bequeathed them the united CAROLINGIAN EMPIRE , but the brothers could not agree on how to divide...to satisfy the claims of each brother for a share in the Carolingian family estates, many of which were in the fertile lands...
Romanesque
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...when the Romanesque style began: some accept C7, drawing Carolingian and Anglo–Saxon architecture within the Romanesque...Winchester, Hants. (C7–C11—with evident Carolingian prototypes). Mature Romanesque architecture, mostly surviving...
Gerbert
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Adalbero were deeply involved on the side of the emperor. The Carolingian dynasty came to an end, and in 987 Gerbert assisted in the...sciences, Otto hoped that emperor and pope would revive the Carolingian Renaissance. Significantly, Gerbert assumed the name Sylvester...
Empire and Imperialism: Overview
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...right political order with the emperor serving as the agent of the pope in the administration of Christian society. The Carolingian empire gradually dissolved over the next century, breaking up into several small kingdoms, the most important being France...
Conquerors
Dictionary entry from: Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary ...1035) Norseman; subjugator of England. [Br. Hist.: Bishop, 42] Charlemagne (742 – 814) established the Carolingian empire. [Fr. Hist.: NCE , 507] Charles V (1500 – 1558) Holy Roman Emperor; last to sack Rome (1527...
Latin
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ...strenuous efforts were made to establish a common core to the liturgy and an established pronunciation of Latin for the whole Carolingian Empire. From the 8th to the 13th cent. Latin was used for almost all literary activity in the W. Church; in the late...

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architecture
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...anatomy, makeup; informal setup. Architectural Styles Art Deco Art Nouveau baroque Bauhaus beaux-arts brutalist Byzantine Carolingian Château Churrigueresque cinquecento classical colonial Corinthian Decorated Doric Early Christian Early English...

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'The Gentle Voices of Teachers': Aspects of Learning in the Carolingian Age.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 9/22/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...18.50.) How civilized was the Carolingian classroom, and how gentle were its...indications that the dynamic forces that drove Carolingian education were far from peaceful. Anskar...mortally wounding one of his charges. One Carolingian poet called the wax tablet a scholar...
Carolingian Culture: Emulation and Innovation. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: History Today; 12/1/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...fundamental questions to cover might be. Carolingian Culture (edited by Rosamund McKitterick...covered would retrospectively delight the Carolingian court and its image-makers in maintaining...politics and theology than piety. The Carolingian court emerged for me as a sort of Bloomsbury...
Historical fact and exegetical fiction in the Carolingian Vita S. Sualonis (1).
Magazine article from: Church History; 3/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...Oswald Holder-Egger, dismissed the Carolingian hagiographer's sermon on the Anglo...the standard problems associated with Carolingian hagiography plague this text--it...It is also, like a large number of Carolingian hagiographies, a foundation narrative...
WITH PATERNAL CONCERN: "FATHERS" THEODULF AND ALCUIN AND THE SPIRITUALITY OF CAROLINGIAN WOMEN
Magazine article from: Magistra; 7/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...Master" or "the Master Teacher" of the Carolingian court, just as Theodulf was noted for...and theological contributions. The Carolingian renovatio, then, was a decidedly male...programmes. While formal treatises of Carolingian theology and ecclesiology manifest the...
History and Memory in the Carolingian World.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Church History; 12/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; History and Memory in the Carolingian World. By Rosamond McKitterick...McKitterick's theme is how Carolingian men and women constructed and understood...Moreover, she posits that in the Carolingian period, written culture brought...
MacLean, Simon: Kingship and Politics in the Late Ninth Century: Charles the Fat and the End of the Carolingian Empire.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: History: Review of New Books; 6/22/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...Charles the Fat and the End of the Carolingian Empire Cambridge: Cambridge University...Charles the Fat and the End of the Carolingian Empire, the first-ever study of Charles...been enrolled among those last pathetic Carolingian rulers who presided over the empire...
"The Gentle Voices of Teachers": Aspects of Learning in the Carolingian Age
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 10/1/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...Teachers":Aspects of Learning in the Carolingian Age. Edited by Richard E. Sullivan...anything but gentle." A sense of Carolingian hard times recurs in Sullivan's list...authors concern themselves with the wider Carolingian world sketched with a certain roughness...
The Crucified God in the Carolingian Era: Theology and Art of Christ's Passion.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Church and State; 6/22/2003; ; 700+ words ; The Crucified God in the Carolingian Era: Theology and Art of Christ...role of artistic images in the Carolingian period, explores late eighth...will benefit from her analysis of Carolingian theology and connection of ideas...
The Crucified God in the Carolingian Era.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Church History; 12/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; The Crucified God in the Carolingian Era. By Celia Chazelle. Cambridge...Chazelle proposes to examine Carolingian thought, taken in its broadest...Christ's Passion into the focus of Carolingian theological discussion with an...
The Carolingian Economy.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 9/22/2004; ; 700+ words ; The Carolingian Economy. By Adriaan Verhulst. (New...Scholars have long debated whether the Carolingian period (ca. AD 750-900) marked...economic growth and that even though the Carolingian rulers lacked an overall economic policy...