1. Read Rosenwein, p. 115-130 for lecture on Thursday Read “Sample Essay Paragraphs”, Einhard’s Life of Charlemagne, and the Royal Frankish Annals an. 775 for section this Friday (on the course website under “Reading”)

2. The mid term is this Thursday (Jan. 21) during the second hour of class. The first paper is due in lecture next Tuesday (Jan. 26).

3. The Carolingians Austrasian nobles mayors of the palace (maior palatii) Pepin of Landen (d. 640) Charlemagne reliquary

4. Charles Martel (d. 741) -Pepin the Short (d. 768) Neustria -Carloman (d. 754) Austrasia Childeric III (r. 743-751) last Merovingian king Royal Frankish Annals Pope Zacharius

5. Stirps regia (royal family) Unction/anointing Translatio Imperii Lombards Basilica of Saint-Denis Donation of Pepin (756) -est Papal States Coronation of Pepin the Short

6. Charlemagne (aka Carolus Magnus/Charles the Great): king of the Franks (r. 768-800), emperor (r. 800-814) Imperator Romanorum (emperor of the Romans) Ruling the Empire -Bannus (power of the ban) -Consensus -dukes and counts -Missi dominici Coronation of Charlemagne

8. Aachen Palace School Alcuin of York (d. 804) Scriptoria Carolingian Renaissance Rabanus Maurus with Alcuin, offering his work to Archbishop Otgar of Mainz

9. Carolingian Miniscule; Latin text of the Oaths of Strasbourg

10. Charlemagne’s Palatine Chapel, Aachen, 9 th c. Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, 6 th c.

11. Palatine Chapel, Aachen, 9 th c. San Vitale, Ravenna, 6 th c.

12. Aachen, Palatine Chapel Dome mosaic, 9 th c. Ravenna, San Vitale Apse mosaic, 6 th c.

13. Aachen Gospels, 10 th c. Ebbo Gospels, 9 th c.

14. Carolingian Ivory, John the Evangelist, early 9 th c. Stilicho Diptych, late 4 th c.

15. Charlemagne Equestrian statue, 9 th c. Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius (believed to be a statue of Constantine during the Middle Ages), 2 nd c.