Recreates the 9th-century world of Charlemagne through portraits of outstanding figures of the age

The author argues that this series of portraits, never before studied as a corpus, creates a visual genealogy equivalent to the textual genealogies and regnal l

The most comprehensive contemporaneous record of the rise and fall of the Carolingian Empire

In eight- and ninth-century Byzantium there arose a heated controversy over religious art, known as the "Iconoclastic Controversy." Analyzing hundreds of pages

Translated from the 1983 French edition, traces the rise, fall, and revival of the Carolingian dynasty, and shows how it molded the shape of a post-Roman Europe