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European Civilization in the Early Middle Ages, 750–1000
A fifteenth-century French manuscript illustration of the coronation of Charlemagne by Pope Leo III
CHAPTER OUTLINE
AND FOCUS QUESTIONS
The World of the Carolingians
Q What was the significance of Charlemagne’s coronation as emperor? In what ways did the political, intellectual, and daily life in the Carolingian Empire represent a fusion of Gallo- Roman, Germanic, and Christian practices?
Disintegration of the Carolingian Empire
Q What impact did the Vikings have on the history and culture of medieval Europe?
The Emerging World of Lords and Vassals
Q What was fief-holding, and how was it related to manorialism?
The Zenith of Byzantine Civilization
Q What were the chief developments in the Byzantine Empire between 750 and 1000?
The Slavic Peoples of Central and Eastern Europe
Q What patterns of development occurred in central
and eastern Europe as a result of the Slavic peoples?
The World of Islam
Q What were the chief developments in the Islamic world between 750 and 1000?
CRITICAL THINKING
Q Why can it be said that Islamic civilization was more advanced than the civilization of western Europe in the ninth and tenth centuries?
CONNECTIONS TO TODAY
Q What is the relationship between events in eastern Europe and the eastern Mediterranean world in the early Middle Ages and the situation in those areas today?
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IN 800, CHARLEMAGNE, the king of the Franks, journeyed to Rome to help Pope Leo III, who was barely clinging to power in the face of rebellious Romans. On Christmas Day, Charlemagne and his family, attended by Romans, Franks, and even visitors from the Byzantine Empire, crowded into Saint Peter’s Basilica to hear Mass. Quite unexpectedly, at least according to a Frankish
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