What is "carolingian"

Usage examples of "carolingian".

En revanche, in the ornamentation and illumination of the great Carolingian volumes which have come down to our times, we find those constant, persistent traces of English and Irish work which we seek for in vain in the plainer writing.

Archbishop is taking seriously what was undoubtedly a fraudulent claim by Hugh Capet intended to cover him with Carolingian legitimacy.

He was the first king of the Carolingian dynasty, ruling from 751 to 768.

With rare insight and rarer taste he discountenanced the prevalent Merovingian hand, and substituted in eclectic hand, known as the Carolingian Minuscule, which way still be regarded as a model of clearness and elegance.

The selection of an Englishman for the post naturally leads us to inquire what hands were then used in England, and what amount of English influence the Carolingian Minuscule, the foundation of our modern styles, exhibits.

It was thus from northern Frankish territory that the ancestors of the later Carolingian dynasty, of Pepin and Charlemagne, came.

France under Carolingian rule in the eighth or ninth century compared with the state of things under the Merovingians in the sixth and seventh.

The so-called Carolingian Renaissance with its concentration on the language and literature of Greece and Rome was limited to scholars and did not penetrate to the ordinary man.

Dutch archaeologists have found the site of a Carolingian fort built before Viking times, probably by Charlemagne himself Between the fort and the fork of the Rhine lay Dorestad, a place stretching for over half a mile along the river, protected by palisades and gates.

Samanide chieftains of Samarkand -- but few Carolingian and Anglo-Saxon coins.

It is that the animal is a composite figure due to the impact upon Viking artists of the realistic Carolingian renderings of lions and other creatures.

Nevertheless they do appear to have seen possibilities in the Carolingian handling of classical plant forms, especially the acanthus.

Traditional products of the Croatian karst hinterland -- livestock, leather, agricultural produce -- were exchanged for the artifacts of more developed societies -- jewellery, knives, Carolingian swords.

That was the commonplace ordinary normal way of doing it, even for Prophets, and you were no Carolingian douzeper, you were no Robin of Locksley, you were just a commonplace ordinary verynormal - whatever it was that they called them.

We have outlined very briefly, as a work of this character requires, the principal features of the Arthurian, Carolingian, and Teutonic cycles.