Did the laity have a part in the Carolingian Renaissance? If so, how were lay elites, and through them the laity at large affected? This fascinating and wide-ra

At its height, the Carolingian empire spanned a million square kilometres of western Europe - from the English Channel to central Italy and northern Spain, and

How does power manifest itself in individuals? Why do people obey authority? And how does a family, if they are the source of such dominance, convey their super

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

Despite the wealth of scholarship in recent decades on medieval women, we still know much less about the experiences of women in the early Middle Ages than we d