Table of Contents

List of figures
List of genealogical tables
List of maps
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
1. The sources
2. From major domus to rex francorum: the emergence of the Carolingians
3. Conquest and consolidation: Pippin III and Charlemagne
4. The means of ruling
5. Louis the Pious and the Christian Empire
6. The foundations of the Carolingian renaissance
7. Charles the Bald and the defence of Carolingian kingship
8. Scholarship, book production and libraries: the flowering of the Carolingian renaissance
9. Normandy, Brittany and Flanders
10. Odo and the emergence of the Robertians
11. Learning and monasticism in the tenth century
12. The last Carolingians
Bibliography of principal sources
A note on further reading
Genealogical tables
Maps
Index of manuscripts
General index

About the Author

Rosamond McKitterick

Reviews

'Above all there is on numerous matters a depth which only a scholar with the author's vast knowledge of the manuscript sources could provide. This book will take a secure place among modern accounts of the Carolingian period.' The Times Higher Education Supplement