Knighthood and learning

Smaragdus of Saint Mihiel (770 – 840), a Visigothic immigrant from Spain (like Theodulf of Orleans , f riend of this blog , whom he knew per...

  Can we know what these dudes doing the reaping and wine-pressing in the foreground really believed in? We're back with the Utrecht Psa...

This illustration of Psalm 103 from the Harley Psalter, a meticulous Anglo-Saxon copy dating between 1000 and 1050 of the Utrecht Psalter, a...

So far, all my posts on the Carolingian era have been all about kings, aristocrats, intellectuals, clerics and warriors. Obviously, these we...