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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 created by the Carolingians . Toward the beginning of the Carolingian Period, in the 8th cent...its apex under Charlemagne . Carolingian Architecture The new architecture...
Carolingians
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...and Louis V . In the Carolingian period, a landed economy...arts. He encouraged the Carolingian Renaissance, a return to...See H. Fichtenau, The Carolingian Empire (1949; tr. 1957...F. L. Ganshof, The Carolingians and the Frankish Monarchy...
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...
Holy Roman Empire
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...by Charlemagne (see also Carolingians ), who revived the title...in the West. According to Carolingian theory, the Roman Empire...Arnulf (899), the last Carolingian to hold the imperial title...renewed the traditions of the Carolingian empire that had been eroding...
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...
Alcuin
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature ...programme of Charlemagne in the ‘Carolingian Renaissance’. He met Charlemagne...original thinker. His enduring legacy was the Carolingian educational curricula and the Carolingian minuscule script developed in his writing...
Classicism
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...classicism. The first is known as the Carolingian Renaissance, so called to recognize...classical authors. He also developed the Carolingian miniscule, a clear script based on...classical texts. The achievements of the Carolingian age set the stage for the next classical...
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...
capitularies
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...decrees and written commands of the Carolingian kings of the Franks, so called because...Germanic laws as they applied to the entire Carolingian empire. Several capitularies&mdash...reforms. Capitularies issued in the late Carolingian period are collected in the Monumenta...

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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 empire
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Carolingian empire The collection...learning (the “Carolingian Renaissance”...civil war among the Carolingians, VIKING raids, and the...strains. Nevertheless, Carolingians reigned in Germany till...
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...
Gerbert
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...political schemes among the Saxons, Carolingians, and Capets; he and Adalbero were...involved on the side of the emperor. The Carolingian dynasty came to an end, and in 987...that emperor and pope would revive the Carolingian Renaissance. Significantly, Gerbert...
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...
Periodization
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...to the end of the Merovingian dynasty, maturity under the Carolingians, and old age under the Capetian. On the political level...Medes, Persians, Greeks, and Romans, which included the Carolingian refoundation, the "Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation...
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...
Classicism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...architecture, but to establish laws, order, and rules in artistic matters. The first Classical revival is associated with the Carolingian period (not unconnected with ambitions to re-establish Imperial power), and the next with the Tuscan proto - Renaissance...
Salic law
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ...Salica , a Frankish law-book, written in Latin, and extant in five successively enlarged recensions of Merovingian and Carolingian date. The words however have no reference to succession to the crown, but merely state that a woman can have no portion...

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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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Province and Empire: Brittany and the Carolingians.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 6/22/1993; ; 700+ words ; ...excellent study of Brittany during the Carolingian age, Julia M. H. Smith has made an important contribution to Carolingian studies. The originality of the...between the center - the aggressive Carolingian state - and the periphery - the...
'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...
History and Memory in the Carolingian World.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Church History; 12/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...studying the Merovingians and Carolingians: the histories of Gregory...what they can tell us of the Carolingians and their history. For instance...but rather a full fledged Carolingian history book that tells a...the founding of Rome to the Carolingians, with a particular prominence...
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...
"The Gentle Voices of Teachers": Aspects of Learning in the Carolingian Age
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 10/1/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...Factors shaping Carolingian studies" include...anything written on the Carolingian period. All allegedly...points out that his Carolingians were already postmodern...in this book-of "Carolingian" to denote not only...Frank, and keep the Carolingians as a dynasty). But...
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...
The Carolingian Economy.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 9/22/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...and that even though the Carolingian rulers lacked an overall...The author shows that the Carolingian rulers favored the spread...Verhulst speculates that the Carolingians wanted thereby to "increase...that the fundamental aims of Carolingian monetary policies and legislation...
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...
Gregorian Chant and the Carolingians.
Magazine article from: Church History; 6/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...Gregorian Chant and the Carolingians. By Kenneth Levy...standard history of Carolingian liturgical reform...royal initiative, the Carolingians imposed a single rite...Gregorian Chant and the Carolingians, Kenneth Levy presents...circulated throughout the Carolingian empire, until the...