In the previous lecture, we looked at Charlemagne and the so-called Carolingian renaissance. I only briefly laid out Charlemagne’s life because I am producing a whole series of lectures on him. If you’d like to learn more about him, please listen to that lecture series. I am now turning away from Charlemagne here and looking at the later Carolingians, beginning with his son, Louis the Pious, up through the reign of his grandsons Charles the Fat and Charles the Simple with whom the Carolingian family’s control wanes and dies. While Charlemagne is certainly the most important Carolingian, we will see that it is, in fact, the later Carolingians that begin to roughly define the boundaries between modern-day European countries.
Medieval Europe 25: The Avignon Papacy (1309-1376)
Medieval Europe 24: The Capetians (1165-1328)
Medieval Europe 23: The Plantagenets, Part II (1216-1327
Medieval Europe 22: The Plantagenets, Part I (1154–1216)
Medieval Europe 21: The First Crusade (1095-1099)
Lecture 20: The Rise of the Normans
Lecture 19: The Gregorian Reforms (1073-1085)
Medieval Europe 18: The Investiture Controversy (1075-1077)
Medieval Europe 17: The Year 1000
Medieval Europe 15: The Anglo-Saxons (770-1066)
Medieval Europe 14: The Vikings
Medieval Europe 13: The Anglo-Saxons (500-750)
Medieval Europe 12: Early Medieval Ireland
Medieval Europe 10: The Carolingian Renaissance
Medieval Europe 09: The Early Carolingians (688-760)
Medieval Europe 08: The Umayyad Invasions (711-732)
Medieval Europe 07 - Visigothic Spain (400-711)
Medieval Europe 06: The Frankish World
Medieval Europe 05: Lombard Italy (533-774)
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