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Internet Medieval Sourcebook
Selected Sources: The Carolingians and After
Contents
The Rise
of the Carolingian Dynasty and Papal Support
- Gregory II: Letter on Icons, to Emp. Leo III, 727
- Charles Martel
- Pepin
Charlemagne
- WEB The Making of Charlemagne's Europe [King's College AHRC Project]
Offers a single, unified database framework for the extraction of prosopographical and socio-economic data found in early medieval legal documents.
- Charlemagne (r. 768-818): Letter to Offa, King of Mercia, 796. [Offa ruled 757-796]
- Charlemagne and Offa, King of Mercia - two documents
- Personality
- Wars
Legal and Social Documents
- Capitulary of Herstal 779, in Latin, [at CNRS]
Charlemagne, King of the Franks, confirms the exemption from tolls granted to Saint-Germain-des-Prés and grants the abbey the tonlieu of Villeneuve-Saint-Georges.
- Capitulary of Mantua 781
- Capitulary of Paderbon 785,
- Capitulary of Frankfort: The Price of Staples 794
- General Capitulary of the Missi,
802.
- Capitulary for Saxony,
c.775-790.
- Charlemagne: Letter to
Baugulf of Fulda.
- Capitulary of 802, full.
- Capitulary of 802 excerpts
- Capitulary De Villis,
9th century.
- 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
- Walafrid Strabo of St. Gall (c.808-849): On The Cultivation of Gardens, text, into. and trans James Mitche [At Academia.edu]
- Eckehard (IV) of St. Gall (c.980-c.1056): 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". [Archived version here]
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Otfrid: Preface to a Gospel Harmony (Letter to Liudbert), c. 870, in Latin and English [At Harbornet] [Internet Archive version here]
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
NOTES:
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