Contents

• The Rise of the Carolingian Dynasty and Papal Support
  • Charles Martel
  • Pepin
• Charlemagne
  • Personality
  • Wars
• Legal and Social Documents
• Carolingian Culture
• Carolingian Decline and Division

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The Rise of the Carolingian Dynasty and Papal Support

• [Tierney 24.1] Gregory II: Letter on Icons, to Emp. Leo III, 727, pub.dom
• Charles Martel
  • Anonymous Arab Chronicler: The Battle of Tours (Poitiers), 732.
  • Arabs, Franks, and the Battle of Tours (Poitiers): Three Accounts, 732
  • [Tierney 24.2] Gregory III: Letter to Charles Martel , 739.
• Pepin
  • [Tierney 24.3] Annals of Lorsch: The Pope makes Pepin king. See also Catholic Encyclopedia: Pepuin the Short.
  • [Tierney 25.1] Life of Pope Stephen II 752-57, copyrighted
  • [Tierney 25.2] The Donation of Constantine , full text.
  • The Correspondence of St. Boniface

Charlemagne

• Personality
  • [Tierney 26.1, Geary 18] Einhard: Life of Charlemagne, (written c. 817-830), Selections. The full text of Einhard: The Life of Charlemagne is available. See also Catholic Encyclopedia: Einhard and Catholic Encyclopedia: Charlemagne.
  • The Monk of Saint Gall (Notker the Stammerer): The Life of Charlemagne, c. 883/4, full text.
• Wars
  • Einhard: The Wars of Charlemagne, excerpts from the Life of Charlemagne, c. 770 - 814
  • [Tierney 26.2] Annals of Lorsch, copyrighted
  • [Tierney 26.3] Frankish Royal Annals, copyrighted
  • [Tierney 27.1] Summons to Charlemagne's Army, c. 804-811.

Legal and Social Documents

• [Geary 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 19.5] Capitulary of Herstal 779, Capitulary of Mantua 781, Capitulary of Paderbon 785, Synod of Frankfort 794, copyrighted
• [Tierney 27.2, Geary 19.8] General Capitulary of the Missi, 802.
• [Tierney 27.3, Geary 19.4] Capitulary for Saxony, c.775-790.
• [Tierney 28.1, Geary 19.6] Charlemagne: Letter to Baugulf of Fulda.
• [Tierney 28.2, Geary 19.9] Capitulary of 802.
• [Tierney 29.2, Geary 19.7] Capitulary De Villis, 9th century.
• [Tierney 29.2] Manor of Neuilly, copyrighted
• Abbé Irminon: Polyptyque de Villeneuve-St. Georges, c. 800
• Asnapium: An Inventory of One of Charlemagne's Estates, c. 800
• Charles the Bald: Edict of Pistes, 864
  One of the most complete Carolingian documents on the regulation of coinage and mints.

Carolingian Culture

• [Tierney 28.3] Walafrid Strabo, of St. Gall: on Gardening, copyrighted
• [Tierney 28.4] Eckehard of St. Gall: Chronicle.
• The Life of Liutberga, 9th Century, trans. Jo Ann McNamara, full text.
• Hucbald: In Praise of Bald Men: a translation of Ecloga de Calvis [At Comitatus]
  A work of the the Carolingian Renaissance, and poem composed entirely of words beginning with the letter "c".
• Otfrid: Preface to a Gospel Harmony (Letter to Liudbert), c. 870, in Latin and English [At Kansas]
  Translation of Otfrid's preface to his Gospel Harmony,  the first long rhyming poem in any language, written about 870.
• Agobard of Lyon: On Injustices to Mathfrid, trans. William L. North, c. 822-February 828
• Agobard of Lyon: On the Insolence of the Jews To Louis the Pious, trans. William L. North, 826/827
• Agobard of Lyon: On the Baptism of Slaves Belonging to Jews (to Adalard, Wala, and Helisachar), trans. William L. North
• Agobard of Lyons (9th Century): On Hail and Thunder  translated by Wendy Lewis
• Agobard of Lyons (9th Century): On the Deception of Certain Signs   translated by Wendy Lewis

Carolingian Decline and Division

• Agobard of Lyons: On the Division of the Empire (to Louis the Pious), trans. William North,  c. 830

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