HIST 1000 Lecture 16: History 1000 ch 16
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Carolingian patronage of benedictine monastism and christian arts and architecture produced in the monasteries. Help administrate, make copies of books, make laws, copy the laws. New carolingian script. includes small letters or miniscule . Hence carolingian minuscule beauty and clarity. Italian renaissance scholars to be a classical script (couldn"t believe it was a product of the dark ages). Today"s italic font is some-what of an example. The avar hoard gave charlemagne the funds to produce an excellent silver coinage and to patronize culture. But it also drew the attention of the scandinavians (vikings) after the. Frisians had ceased to control the north sea lanes. After charlemagne: the decline of the carolingian empire and the fury of the north men hlvovvicus imp avg (louis the pious emperor. Charlemagne crowned his only surviving son emperor because he did not like the pope crowning people. The new pope stephen |v wished to keep good relations with the empire.
