Saxon Story: An Anonymous Petition to Louis the Pious, c. 815

Empires transform the populations they rule, binding them into a changed order with new patterns of power and ways of thinking, connecting them to a wider world. One of the things that makes that of the Carolingians so interesting is the extent to which that transformation was mandated from the centre. Charlemagne and his successors … Continue reading Saxon Story: An Anonymous Petition to Louis…