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In the period 778–814 the Frankish empire of the Carolingians (Charlemagne and his successors) expanded its political reach south of the Pyrenees into Spain. This study seeks to determine the impact of Frankish rule on the area, now known as Catalonia, especially since it posses…

The subject of this thesis is the relationship between hagiography and cult in the early medieval west taken through the example of the Passiones of St. Kilian of Würzburg († 689) in the period from circa 700 to circa 1000 AD. Through examining a cult which developed east of the…

Agobard of Lyon has usually been studied because of his writings about Jews. This dissertation likewise began from a desire to understand Agobard's anti-Jewish writings, their content, motives, and impact. Approaching that topic from the basis of Agobard's whole corpus of writin…

The Gospels of Sta. Maria ad Martyres (Trier, Stadtbibliothek, Cod. 23, 122a/b), a Carolingian manuscript of ca. 800, contains a dedication poem mentioning Albinus, the Anglo-Saxon scholar Alcuin, as its author and donor of a two-part gift to a king, traditionally identified as …

Theodulf of Orleans (d. 821), was the pride of the Carolingian court. Theodulf was among the retinue of international scholars who had gathered about the towering figure of Charlemagne to implement the program of educational reform and spiritual revitalization which the emperor …