In this project we would like to explore the cultural history of the Carolingian and post-Carolingian world. The Carolingian reforms of language, script and education before and after 800 have been studied intensively as an important period for the formation of the social, political and cultural horizons of Latin Europe in the Middle Ages. 

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Paris Bnf Ms. Lat. 5941, 12th century, fol 2r.
Historia langobardorum, Utrecht University Library, Hs. 734, fol. 5v
Frutolf of Michaelsberg's Chronicon, Carolingian Genealogy, Ms. Bos. q. 19 at the ThULB in Jena, 152v
Detail, BnF lat. 8878, fol. 85r (3rd quarter of the 11th century)
ÖNB, Cod. 515, fol. 2v; mittelalterliche Handschrift
ÖNB, Cod. 387, fol. 4r; mittelalterliche Handschrift


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