Carolingian Disappointments
(outline)
Comment Blog
W. Carroll: “slide toward chaos”
J. Strayer: “The collapse of the Carolingian Empire – Feudalism”
C. Dawson: “The Age of the Vikings and the Conversion of the North”
B. Tierney: “The West Besieged: Muslim, Magyar and Viking Invasions”
Louis the Pious (814 – 840)
Lothar
Charles the Bald (Neustria)
Louis the German (Austrasia)
Bernard the Nephew
Judith of Bavaria & son Charles
Pope Gregory IV at Colmar in Alsace
Pope Valentine
Constitutio Lothari
9 articles: by Roman presbyteral cardinals
Pope Eugenius II, Council of the Lateran (826)
The Field of Lies
Battle of Fontenoy: Lothar & Pepin v. Charles and Louis
Treaty of Verdun (843)
“Lotharingia”
Muslims attack Italy, Rome, Sicily, Taranto, Brindisi, southern Provençe
Benevento
Pope Leo IV and the Leonine City (“Civitas Leonina”)
Pope Benedict III & Legend of Pope Joan (Pope John VII)
Theodora and Marozia
“Since then professional historians have generally regarded this fable as beneath their notice.” W. Carroll Building of Christendom
Subiaco
Pope Benedict III “worthy of tears”
Between Pope Leo IV and Pope Nicholas I “the Great”