Introduction - Joanna Story
1. The long shadow of the Merovingians - Paul Fouracre
2. Charlemagne the Man - Janet L. Nelson
3. Einhard’s Charlemagne: the characterization of greatness - David
Ganz
4. Charlemagne’s imperial coronation and the Annals of Lorsch -
Roger Collins
5. What was Charlemagne’s government? - Matthew Innes
6. The Captains and the Kings: the aristocracy in Charlemagne’s
reign - Stuart Airlie
7. Charlemagne’s Church - Mayke de Jong
8. Three ‘Men of God’ in Charlemagne’s service: Alcuin, Hildebald,
Arno - Donald Bullough
9. The Carolingian renaissance of culture and learning - Rosamond
McKitterick
10. Charlemagne and the renewal of Rome - Neil Christie
11. Charlemagne and the world beyond the Rhine - Timothy Reuter
12. Charlemagne and the Anglo-Saxons - Joanna Story
13. Charlemagne’s coinage: ideology and economy - Simon
Coupland
14. Rural settlement hierarchy in the age of Charlemagne -
Christopher Loveluck
15. Urban developments in the age of Charlemagne - Frans
Verhaeghe
Joanna Story is Lecturer in Early Medieval History at the University of Leicester
"'There is not a weak essay in this volume - the standard of scholarship is high and current. Teachers and students will profit from this book, to be sure, but they will also enjoy it.' Professor Thomas Noble, University of Notre Dame 'It will rapidly find a place on reading lists - it is a volume I shall certainly want to prescribe for my own students, introductory and advanced.' Julia M.H. Smith, University of St Andrews"
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