Knighthood and learning

  Happy Valentine’s Day everyone. Now I’m not going to write a post about the history of Valentine’s Day itself, though I’d like to say that...

  As a follow-up to the previous post and to wrap up loose ends, lets answer two questions. Did people at the time think was going on and th...

  On 13 th January 888, the Carolingian emperor Charles the Fat breathed his last and died of a stroke. He had been the first Carolingian t...

 And so we're back again with another Carolingian imperial coronation, one which followed almost exactly 75 years after the one we looke...