This revealing study explores how people at all social levels, whether laity or clergy, needed, used and kept documents.

This is the first major study of the interplay between Latin and Germanic vernaculars in early medieval records, examining the role of language choice in the do

Our period opens at the end of the Roman Empire when intellectual currents are indebted to the Greek philosophical inheritance of Plato and Aristotle, as well a

Examines the fundamental question of what held the societies of the post-Roman world together.

Charles I, often known as Charlemagne, is one of the most extraordinary figures ever to rule an empire. Driven by unremitting physical energy and intellectual c