#caroligian

[cy-lindric]

Caroligian clothing for episode 98 of Passion Médiévistes, based off of the Stuttgart Psalter !

[best-bourbon-monarch]

Charlemagne (dates of reign):

Il a un gosse (illégitime mais quand même) qui s'appelle Thierry et juste pour ça il devrait tout sweep

(translation: he's got a kid (out of wedlock but still) named Thierry and just for that he ought to sweep all the way)

Il a eu cette idée folle, un jour d'inventer l'école...

Known for a lot of things, good and bad, that he did, he was famously crowned emperor of the occident on Christmas of 800.

Gave its name to the Caroligian Dynasty

Anne d'Autriche (dates of regency):

Was a spanish habsburg born in Valadolid and, as such, princess of the Netherlands. Cause why not. She did the regency for her son Louis XIV until he became of age.

[nonevahed]

so i'm trying to make comparisons between early medieval France and the Zhou Dynasty, where with one you had the Dynasty slowly decaying, but in France the Capetians manage to reassert central authority eventually.

but there's the whole big factor of "the Carolingians are replaced by the Capetians", which i thought had been a straightforward palace coup or something but apparently not

and then i get caught up trying to understand what the hell happened, turns out you had Caroligian and Capetian (well, "Robertian", whatever) kings wrestling over the throne for a good century before 988

and when you try and look at when the Robertians first started becoming kings you're back at when France and Germany were coming apart and getting stuck back together again and that's its whole damn mess

i might just need to learn the history of the Carolignian empire from the start, fucking hell

but no, the Carolingians were direct successors to the Merovingians, and to understand the Frankish state that's just a direct leadon from the fall of rome

goddamn

[grad603michaelameyer]

Carol Twombly

Carol Twombly joined Adobe in 1988, and one of her first projects was Trajan. She closely studied historical scripts for inspiration and successfully translated Roman inscriptions into a modern digital design; Trajan. She used her background as a calligrapher and her interest in paleography to translate Caroligian versals into a typeface called Charlemagne. Lithos was also based on historical precedents, leaning more towards ancient Greek inscriptions. She marketed these three fonts as "Modern Ancients"/ Her first original typeface design was a collaboration with Robert Slimbach to create sans-seriff Myriad. In 1999 Carol left Adobe. She attributed this to a lack of interest in designing fonts for onscreen display and the market failure of Adobe's multiple master font technology. She is currently an independent artist.

[noneatnonedotcom]

Perhaps not but the new empire he had built might not have been split by succession had he taken the Roman and Byzantine tradition of primogeniture or imperial elective succession. I'm more curious as to how the culture of the caroligian empire would have shifted and the culture of Europe as an extension

[imthemuthafuckingcricket]

It's amazing. Thinking about BBC Merlin the team really put in the research to bring us such beautiful and painfully accurate 12th century costuming. You can even see The Caroligian inspiration in the finer details/designs.

Especially Morgana's outfits! They really went all out with her.

[middleagesrhapsody-blog-blog]

Pepin the Short

Pepin, called the Short or the Little (Pépin le Bref), was the first King of the Franks (752–68) of the Carolingian dynasty. In 741 he and his brother Carloman succeeded their father, Charles Martel, as mayors of the palace and de facto rulers of the kingdom during an interregnum (737–43). After the retirement of Carloman (747), Pepin obtained the permission of Pope Zachary to depose the last of the Merovingian kings, Childeric III, and assume the throne (752). As he was named for his grandfather, Pepin of Heristal, in turn named for his grandfather, Pepin of Landen, both mayors of the palace, Pepin the Short has sometimes been numbered Pepin III.

Historical opinion often seems to regard him as the lesser son and lesser father of two greater men, though a great man in his own right. He continued to build up the heavy cavalry which his father had begun. He maintained the standing army that his father had found necessary to protect the realm and form the core of its full army in wartime. He not only contained the Iberian Muslims as his father had, but drove them out of the country. He continued his father's expansion of the Frankish church (missionary work in Germany and Scandinavia) and the institutional infrastructure (feudalism) that would prove the backbone of medieval Europe.

His rule, while not as great as either his father's or son's, was historically important and of great benefit to the Franks as a people. Pepin's assumption of the crown, and the title of Patrician of Rome, were harbingers of his son's imperial coronation which is usually seen as the founding of the Holy Roman Empire. He made the Carolingians de jure what his father had made them de facto — the ruling dynasty of the Franks and the foremost power of Europe. While not known as a great general, he was undefeated during his lifetime.

[best-bourbon-monarch]

Charlemagne:

Il a un gosse (illégitime mais quand même) qui s'appelle Thierry et juste pour ça il devrait tout sweep

(translation: he's got a kid (out of wedlock but still) named Thierry and just for that he ought to sweep all the way)

Il a eu cette idée folle, un jour d'inventer l'école...

Known for a lot of things, good and bad, that he did, he was famously crowned emperor of the occident on Christmas of 800.

Gave its name to the Caroligian Dynasty

Charles le Simple (can be translated as: Charles the Idiot)

This guy was just never in charge of his own life. That's kinda sad. And he's remembered as Charles the Idiot. What a world.

Dates indicated are dates of reign

[figbian]

@swmngpools yes sorry there’s not much context here. i’m currently writing a paper on walafrid strabo’s poem about plants sprouting from the bones of a deer, a scene potentially he stumbled upon in a caroligian hunting park. it’s a weird and neat little poem, playing with the idea of an unnatural natural world (the hunting park is man-made, created to be good for hunting etc, and sometimes is thought about as an artificial eden in medieval writings, but ultimately we know now the hunting park is an ecological disaster bcs they’re bringing in invasive species etc. the hunting park destroys natural diversity, the very thing it strives to create, etc. the violence of planting trees.)

on top of that, the poem is about the sort of life in death and life from violence, where the trees are bones, which again has this idea that trees come from violence: to make a forest is to sacrifice & hunt & kill. my thoughts r rlly disjointed on this rn bcs im supposed to be focusing on alcuin but if there are any walafrid strabo ppl out there . I Am So Into How Weird His Poems Can Be

also weird little seneca references :-)

frothing at the mouth again abt the violence of planting trees

[best-bourbon-monarch]

Charlemagne (dates of reign):

Il a un gosse (illégitime mais quand même) qui s'appelle Thierry et juste pour ça il devrait tout sweep

(translation: he's got a kid (out of wedlock but still) named Thierry and just for that he ought to sweep all the way)

Il a eu cette idée folle, un jour d'inventer l'école...

Known for a lot of things, good and bad, that he did, he was famously crowned emperor of the occident on Christmas of 800.

Gave its name to the Caroligian Dynasty

Louis IX:

SAINT LOUIS ! Considéré comme un saint de son vivant déjà ! Canonisé seulement quelques années après ça mort ! C'est pas du swag, ça ? Il a remis la quarantaine-le-roi et ordonné la présomption d'innocence ! Il a viré les ordalies, atténué la torture ! Votez pour lui, c'est le seul juste juge, sollicité même par les autres monarques ! ❤

(translation: enthusiastic french noise)

Champion of human rights even by our time's standards.

[best-bourbon-monarch]

Charlemagne:

Il a un gosse (illégitime mais quand même) qui s'appelle Thierry et juste pour ça il devrait tout sweep

(translation: he's got a kid (out of wedlock but still) named Thierry and just for that he ought to sweep all the way)

Il a eu cette idée folle, un jour d'inventer l'école...

Known for a lot of things, good and bad, that he did, he was famously crowned emperor of the occident on Christmas of 800.

Gave its name to the Caroligian Dynasty

Philippe IV:

le gars est tellement sexy que c'est son nom ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(translation: the guy is so sexy it's in his name *shrug emoji*)

Dates indicated are dates of reign.