Between the late seventh and the mid-ninth centuries, a debate about sacred images–
conventionally addressed as 'Byzantine iconoclasm'–engaged monks, emperors, and popes …

In the rapidly changing world of the early Middle Ages, depictions of the cosmos represented
a consistent point of reference across the three dominant states--the Frankish, Byzantine …

This book argues that abbatial authority was fundamental to monastic historical writing in the
period c. 500-1500. Writing history was a collaborative enterprise integral to the life and …

Lothar looms large in the Liber pontificalis of Ravenna, an episcopal gesta composed after
846 by a local cleric of that city named Agnellus. In its prefatory verse, Lothar was tied to the …

The history of Rome in the early Middle Ages is best understood as a continuous evolution
from Rome of the Caesars to Rome of the popes, with the latter taking on many of the roles …

Ernst Kantorowicz plausibly claimed that Charlemagne's triumphal entry into Rome in 774
recalled Christ's entry into Jerusalem. Kantorowicz further claimed that Charlemagne's …