Carolingian Culture: Emulation and Innovation.

History Today | December 1, 1994| | Copyright

* There two books are distinctively 'reference books', despite the brave efforts of the writers to make them readable. A difference between the books is their approach to the Middle Ages: one accepts the agenda of the period covered, while the other operates within a twentieth-century perspective of what the fundamental questions to cover might be.

Carolingian Culture (edited by Rosamund McKitterick) is a composite volume -- the eleven chapters are derived from a Cambridge history faculty course of lectures for 'Rome's heirs: the Germanic kingdoms of Western Europe ...

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