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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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Carolingians
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Carolingians , dynasty of Frankish rulers, founded...Charlemagne (1965); F. L. Ganshof, The Carolingians and the Frankish Monarchy (tr. 1971...McKitternick, The Frankish Kingdoms under the Carolingians (1983).
Capetians
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...From 893 to 987 the crown passed back and forth between Carolingians and descendants of Robert the Strong. Eudes's brother...1982); R. McKitterick, The Frankish Kingdoms under the Carolingians (1983); J. Dunbabin, France in the Making, 843-1180...
Otto I
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...busy in Germany, however, he did not ignore his neighbors. He intervened in the struggle between the French Capetians and Carolingians and thus assured himself of their acceptance of his absorption of Lorraine into the empire. He kept control over Hedeby...
Aragón
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...founded by the Roman emperor Augustus. Visigoths conquered the area in the late 5th cent. and Muslims in the early 8th cent. Carolingians pushed out the Muslims (c.850), and Aragón came under the rule of Navarre. At the death (1035) of Sancho...
Roussillon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...The area has changed hands many times, from the Romans, who arrived c.121 BC, through the Visigoths, the Arabs, the Carolingians, the Spaniards, the counts of Barcelona, and the kings of Aragón, France, and Majorca. Louis XIII conquered...
Neustria
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Heristal , mayor of the palace of the king of Austrasia, defeated his Neustrian rival and united Austrasia and Neustria. His descendants, the Carolingians , continued to rule the two realms, first as mayors and after 751 as kings.
Louis I
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...partitioned his empire between Lothair and Charles and died while attempting to uphold the partition against the Aquitanians and Louis the German. Bibliography: See F. L. Ganshof, The Carolingians and the Frankish Monarchy (1971).
coronation
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...returned to Scotland and displayed in Edinburgh Castle. In France, Pepin the Short, first king of the Carolingian line (see Carolingians , was twice anointed by popes, partly to legitimize his supersession of the Merovingian dynasty (see Merovingians ). Later...
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., a gradual change appeared in Western culture and art, a...
Saint Benedict
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...experience appear in the Rule of St. Benedict (in Latin), which became the chief rule in Western monasticism under the Carolingians. The Cistercians also follow the Rule of Saint Benedict. The Rule's 73 chapters are full of a spirit of moderation and...

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Carolingian empire
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...by the Treaty of VERDUN in 843, civil war among the Carolingians, VIKING raids, and the ambitions of rival families...the empire to intolerable strains. Nevertheless, Carolingians reigned in Germany till 911 and in France till 987...
Gerbert
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Apennines, but by 984 he was back in Rheims. From then on, he took an active part in the political schemes among the Saxons, Carolingians, and Capets; he and Adalbero were deeply involved on the side of the emperor. The Carolingian dynasty came to an end...
Salic law
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...Salian FRANKS , which originated in 5th century Gaul. It was issued by CLOVIS (465–511) and reissued under the CAROLINGIANS . It contained both criminal and civil clauses and provided for penal fines for offenders. It also laid down that daughters...
Capetian
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Capetian (987–1328) The dynasty of French kings who succeeded the CAROLINGIANS . It was not until the reign of Louis VI (1108–1137) that the dynasty established firm control over its own territories...
Periodization
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...history, marking infancy from the legendary Pharamond, youth to the end of the Merovingian dynasty, maturity under the Carolingians, and old age under the Capetian. On the political level the commonest way of describing the structure of history was through...
Saracens
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...the islands in the Mediterranean; they held Sicily from the 9th to the 11th century. Their expansion was halted by the Carolingians in France only with great difficulty. The Crusades against them, though initially effective, did not prove decisive in...

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Gregorian Chant and the Carolingians.
Magazine article from: Church History; 6/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; Gregorian Chant and the Carolingians. By Kenneth Levy. Princeton...result of royal initiative, the Carolingians imposed a single rite on their...century. In Gregorian Chant and the Carolingians, Kenneth Levy presents an alternative...
Gregorian Chant and the Carolingians.(Review)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 9/22/1999; ; 700+ words ; Kenneth Levy, Gregorian Chant and the Carolingians (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998...to address the transmission of Gregorian chant under the Carolingians. Indeed, as the only book to address directly problems...
The Reception of the Church Fathers in the West: From the Carolingians to the Maurists
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 10/1/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...The Reception of the Church Fathers in the West.From the Carolingians to the Maurists. Edited by Irena Backus. 2 vols. (Leiden...comprehensive history of the reception of the Church Fathers from the Carolingians to the Maurists in two volumes. What this work gives, rather...
From Ducatus to Regnum; ruling Bavaria under the Merovingians and early Carolingians.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 5/1/2008; 480 words ; ...Regnum; ruling Bavaria under the Merovingians and early Carolingians. Hammer, Carl I. Brepols Publishers 2007 384 pages $86...dukes Tassilo and Odilo, often seen only as opponents to the Carolingians. In this work, Hammer dispels assumptions made by earlier...
Province and Empire: Brittany and the Carolingians.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 6/22/1993; ; 700+ words ; In this excellent study of Brittany during the Carolingian age, Julia M. H. Smith has made an important contribution to Carolingian studies. The originality of the book stems primarily from her unique conceptual approach. Smith seeks to assess the consequences of an encounter between the center -
Conflicting Loyalties in Early Medieval Bavaria: a View of Socio-Political Interaction, 680-900.
Magazine article from: Church History; 3/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...efforts of the Agilolfingi dukes and the Carolingians who supplanted them to create a territorial...warding off the increasingly powerful Carolingians. Many powerful Bavarian kindreds divided...1998) for the suggestion that the Carolingians deliberately falsified the historical...
Charles the Bald.
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 9/22/1993; ; 586 words ; ...scholarship towards viewing the later Carolingians as powerful and influential rulers...one process, 'the decline of the Carolingians', or (in the case of Charles the...scholarly literature on the ninth-century Carolingians, which now includes in English Nelson...
State and Society in the Early Middle Ages: The Middle Rhine Valley, 400-1000
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...organize themselves independently of the Carolingians in the seventh century, but the Carolingians knew how to use them, manipulating them...In turn, though association with the Carolingians did restrict the political independence...
History and Memory in the Carolingian World.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Church History; 12/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...texts for studying the Merovingians and Carolingians: the histories of Gregory of Tours...to see what they can tell us of the Carolingians and their history. For instance...story from the founding of Rome to the Carolingians, with a particular prominence given...
Politics and Power in Early Medieval Europe: Alsace and the Frankish Realm, 600-1000.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...Carolingian Europe. When the Carolingians came to power in the mid-eighth...chapters (chapter three, "The Carolingians and Ecclesiastical Property"), Hummer shows how the early Carolingians effectively coopted local gift...