#Carolingian

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Carolingian Child King by Jean-Paul Laurens

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The Langobards

The Langobards/Lombards/Longobards are an Italic-Germanic tribe with origins in southern Scandinavia around the first centuries B.C. and A.D.

Their steady migration southward can be retraced by archaeological artifacts, which show their Scandinavian origin.

Their early connections to (the geographical city of) Rome made them very influential in the Western Roman world; on financial, military, religious but also law practice and kingship levels.

The Lombards were quickly christened and were the founding fathers of many religious institutions in northern Italy, ruled Italy, and adapted/adopted Roman Law, making for a culturally rich period. Their capital Pavia is located in the Italian province of Lombardy, named after, you guessed it.

It has to be said (it sounds like a fake fact but it is not) that their name means “Long Beards”. In many European languages the descriptive name can be heard in “Langobard” also written as “Longobard”.

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Langobardic radiate headed bow brooch

Found in: Chiusi - Tuscany, Italy

[thebeautifulbook]

CODEX AUREUS OF ST. EMMERAM

The illuminated gospel book, made in 870 for the Holy Roman Emperor Charles II. An important example of Carolingian art, it features a handmade relief cover in gold, decorated by sapphires, emeralds, and pearls.

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[howamidrivinginlimbo]

Palatine Chapel in the Aachener Dom, Aachen

It was built between 792 and 805 under Charlemagne. The building combined elements of Classical, Byzantine and Pre-Romanesque architecture. The architect was Odo of Metz.

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Feeling blue? 1000 years before the blue elephant emoji was added to phones, some Italian monks drew this elephant and friends in a manuscript for Abbot Theobald of Monte Cassino. Monte Cassino was an important monastery and home to St Benedict whose rule is the basis for the Benedictine Order of monks and nuns that still exists today.

This manuscript contains an abbreviation of Hrabanus Maurus's De Rerum Naturis (On the Natures of Things). Hrabanus Maurus (d. 856) was archbishop of Mainz. In addition to encyclodpedia-like works sucha as De Rerum Naturis, he wrote Biblical commentaries, grammars, teaching texts and poems with complex palindromes. He wrote so much that his surviving writings fill about 6 modern type-set volumes.

Materials: parchment, pigments, ink Contents: Hrabanus Maurus, De Rerum Naturis Date: 1022-1032 Now Archivio dell'Abbazia, Montecassino, MS 132 (image from a facsimile)

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Sword FIGHT!!

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Gold brooch with enamel bust, Carolingian, 8th century AD

from Dumbarton Oaks

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Comb, made in Metz, ca. 875

From the Victoria and Albert Museum

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Impressions of an early medieval farmstead Pics taken in Lauresham, which is an open-air laboratory for experimental archeology in Lorsch, Germany - and the absolute best workplace of all time

[lacazavampiros]

Towards daybreak she did close her eyes a little, and dreamed she saw Ruggiero who said to her: 'Why do you fret yourself and believe what is not true? You will see the rivers flow upstream before ever I turn my thoughts to any but you. If I did not love you, I should never love my heart, nor the pupils of my eyes.'

Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto, English prose translation by Guido Waldman

[dreamconsumer]

Louis the German (806/10-876). Illustration from "Die Deutschen Kaiser" by Max Barack (Julius Hoffmann, Stuttgart, c.1873).

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Charlemagne anxiously observes the approach of ships carrying Norman raiders by Alphonse de Neuville

[merovingian-marvels]

King’s Field Pendant

This magnificent pendant is the ultimate proof that the “Dark Ages” is an academic concept. Rather than Europe plummeting into darkness because of the “fall” of the Western Roman Empire, it’s more the lack of academic interest in the Early Middle Ages.

This Anglo-Saxon pendant was found on King’s Field (Kent) and is made of gold and garnet, but decorated extremely intricately with gabuchon, filigree and granulation. The garnet was used to form a triskele with round centre and ending in bird heads. At just 3,5 cm across, this was made by a master craftsman with materials from all over the known world.

The pendant might have been worn on a bit of string or rope, or it may have been worn as part of a glass beaded necklace. The pendant likely belonged to a woman.

The British museum, England

Museum nr. .1145.’70

Found in King’s Field - Kent, England

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[thebeautifulbook]

LORSCH GOSPELS. This ivory book cover illustrates late imperial scenes adapted to a Christian theme. It is a striking example of early 9th Century Carolingian art. The front panels are in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

The manuscript, written in Latin between 778 and 820, roughly coincides with the period of Charlemagne's rule over the Frankish Empire.

The attempt in Northern Europe to revive and emulate classical Mediterranean art forms and styles resulted in a blending of classical and Northern elements in a sumptuous and dignified style. The Northern confidence representing the human figure set the stage for the rise of Romanesque art and eventually Gothic art in the West. The Carolingian era is part of the period in medieval art sometimes called the "Pre-Romanesque". After a rather chaotic interval following the Carolingian period, the new Ottonian dynasty revived Imperial art from about 950, building on and further developing Carolingian style in Ottonian art.

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[grayjoy15]

Day 16: Rotrude, daughter of Charlemagne. As a child, she was engaged to Constantine VI, the son of Byzantine Empress Irene Sarantapechaina, and educated by a Greek monk. The betrothal fell through, and she never married as Charlemagne then forbade all his daughters from marrying in order to prevent any claimants to the throne. Still, she was allowed to take lovers and have children, and she was very well educated and a counselor to her father.