Charlemagne’s son and heir, Louis the Pious, succeeded his father as emperor in 814. But upheaval at Frankish court in 829 culminated in an attempted coup in 830. The Carolingian Empire was ...

Nithard took after his father, who served the court as a poet, military strategist, diplomat, and historian, and wrote ...

Eric J. Goldberg, Ph.D., professor of history at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), will visit Lycoming College as ...

Archaeological excavations on the Ile de Ré, an island off France's Atlantic coast, have unearthed graves and artefacts ...

Early Medieval history, the Carolingian empire, micro-Medieval studies, the 12th-century Renaissance, Latin palaeography, Medieval platonism, historical dreams, Eriugena, and Medieval weather. After ...

In his talk, Goldberg will discuss the Frankish ruler Charlemagne (768–814) and his dynasty, the Carolingians, who conquered the peoples of Europe and created an empire. The Carolingian empire entered ...

"The findings provide rare tangible evidence of close ties between the Carolingian Empire [a Frankish empire in Western and Central Europe during the early Middle Ages] and a population from the ...