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The Dark Ages are a silly myth that just won't seem to go away. Let's look at one such tale from the period, the rebith of Western European power as some evidence as to why the time period between the Fall of Western Rome and the Fall of Constantinople is truly a facsinating and not at all dark era of human history.
Primary
Bursell, Rupert. "The Coronation Oath." Ecclesiastical Law Journal 25, no. 2 (2023): 156-170.
Einhard, Vita Karoli Magni. The life of Charlemagne. Folio Society, 1970.
Fouracre, Paul, and Richard A. Gerberding. "Liber Historiae Francorum (The Book of the History of the Franks)." In Late Merovingian France, pp. 79-96. Manchester University Press, 2013.
Scholz, Bernhard Walter, and Barbara Rogers, eds. Carolingian Chronicles: Royal Frankish Annals and Nithard's Histories. Vol. 186. University of Michigan Press, 1970.
Warner, David A. "Ottonian Germany: The Chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg." In Ottonian Germany. Manchester University Press, 2013.
Secondary
Aguilera-Barchet, Bruno, and Bruno Aguilera-Barchet. "Popes vs. Emperors: The Rise and Fall of Papal Power." A History of Western Public Law: Between Nation and State (2015): 121-152.
Barraclough, Geoffrey. The Crucible of Europe: The Ninth and Tenth Centuries in European History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976.
Benham, Jenny. "T reaty of V erdun (843)." The Encyclopedia of Diplomacy (2018): 1-5.
Crosby, Bruce H. "How the Franks Became Frankish: The Power of Law Codes and the Creation of a People." (2020).
Effros, Bonnie, and Isabel Moreira, eds. The Oxford Handbook of the Merovingian World. Oxford University Press, 2020.
Gillett, Andrew. "Rome, Ravenna and the last western emperors." Papers of the British School at Rome 69 (2001): 131-167.
Hallenbeck, Jan T. The Frankish monarchy and the papacy, 750-774: a study of the Frankish-papal alliance in the eighth century. New York University, 1966.
King, Paul David. Charlemagne: translated sources. PD King, 1987. 38-41
Mayr-Harting, Henry. "Charlemagne, the Saxons, and the Imperial Coronation of 800." The English Historical Review 111, no. 444 (1996): 1113-1133.
Nelson, Janet L. "The Annals of St-Bertin: Ninth-Century Histories, Volume I." In The Annals of St-Bertin. Manchester University Press, 2013.
Riché, Pierre. The Carolingians: A family who forged Europe. pp. 274-288 University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993.
Wallach, Luitpold. "The genuine and the forged oath of Pope Leo III." Traditio 11 (1955): 37-63.s
Whaley, Derek. "From a Salic law to the Salic law: The creation and re-creation of the royal succession system of France 1." In The Routledge History of Monarchy, pp. 443-464. Routledge, 2019.
Discord: discord.gg/historyofeverything
Patreon: patreon.com/HistoryofEverythingYouTube
The Dark Ages are a silly myth that just won't seem to go away. Let's look at one such tale from the period, the rebith of Western European power as some evidence as to why the time period between the Fall of Western Rome and the Fall of Constantinople is truly a facsinating and not at all dark era of human history.
Primary
Bursell, Rupert. "The Coronation Oath." Ecclesiastical Law Journal 25, no. 2 (2023): 156-170.
Einhard, Vita Karoli Magni. The life of Charlemagne. Folio Society, 1970.
Fouracre, Paul, and Richard A. Gerberding. "Liber Historiae Francorum (The Book of the History of the Franks)." In Late Merovingian France, pp. 79-96. Manchester University Press, 2013.
Scholz, Bernhard Walter, and Barbara Rogers, eds. Carolingian Chronicles: Royal Frankish Annals and Nithard's Histories. Vol. 186. University of Michigan Press, 1970.
Warner, David A. "Ottonian Germany: The Chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg." In Ottonian Germany. Manchester University Press, 2013.
Secondary
Aguilera-Barchet, Bruno, and Bruno Aguilera-Barchet. "Popes vs. Emperors: The Rise and Fall of Papal Power." A History of Western Public Law: Between Nation and State (2015): 121-152.
Barraclough, Geoffrey. The Crucible of Europe: The Ninth and Tenth Centuries in European History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976.
Benham, Jenny. "T reaty of V erdun (843)." The Encyclopedia of Diplomacy (2018): 1-5.
Crosby, Bruce H. "How the Franks Became Frankish: The Power of Law Codes and the Creation of a People." (2020).
Effros, Bonnie, and Isabel Moreira, eds. The Oxford Handbook of the Merovingian World. Oxford University Press, 2020.
Gillett, Andrew. "Rome, Ravenna and the last western emperors." Papers of the British School at Rome 69 (2001): 131-167.
Hallenbeck, Jan T. The Frankish monarchy and the papacy, 750-774: a study of the Frankish-papal alliance in the eighth century. New York University, 1966.
King, Paul David. Charlemagne: translated sources. PD King, 1987. 38-41
Mayr-Harting, Henry. "Charlemagne, the Saxons, and the Imperial Coronation of 800." The English Historical Review 111, no. 444 (1996): 1113-1133.
Nelson, Janet L. "The Annals of St-Bertin: Ninth-Century Histories, Volume I." In The Annals of St-Bertin. Manchester University Press, 2013.
Riché, Pierre. The Carolingians: A family who forged Europe. pp. 274-288 University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993.
Wallach, Luitpold. "The genuine and the forged oath of Pope Leo III." Traditio 11 (1955): 37-63.s
Whaley, Derek. "From a Salic law to the Salic law: The creation and re-creation of the royal succession system of France 1." In The Routledge History of Monarchy, pp. 443-464. Routledge, 2019.
