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