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- Powerpoint presentation
- Einhard’s biography of Charlemagne
- Timeline of Charlemagne’s life
- Henri Pirenne’s Mohammed and Charlemagne is one of the most important books on the Middle Ages published in the 20th century. The “Pirenne Thesis” states that the Islamic conquests of the 7th century and 8th centuries fundamentally altered the Mediterranean economy, and that Carolingian society was thus different from everything that had come before it economically.
Charlemagne and the Carolingian Renaissance – Quiz
- An event of great symbolic importance occurred on Christmas Day of the year 800 when the pope did what?
- Charlemagne’s empire is sometimes called “the first _________” by historians.
- Charlemagne’s three grandsons divided his empire in 843 in the Treaty of _________.
- Identify at least one region that Charlemagne conquered.
- In what way was the Carolingian Renaissance spurred by Charlemagne’s desire to support the Church?
- ____________ established a palace school under Charlemagne and helped establish many schools and libraries throughout the empire.
- _________ was Charlemagne’s biographer.
- Crowned Charlemagne “Emperor of the Romans”
- Europe
- Verdun
- Lombard kingdom, Spanish March, Saxony, Bavaria, Carinthia
- He wanted to increase clerical literacy and promote a uniform Bible
- Alcuin of York
- Einhard