Carolingian Dynasty

(noun)

An empire during the late medieval realm of the Franks, ruled by the Carolingian family, a Frankish noble family to which Charlemagne belonged.

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  • The End of the Carolingians

    • After Charlemagne's death in 814, the Carolingian Dynasty began an extended period of fragmentation and decline that would eventually lead to the evolution of the territories of France and Germany.
    • The Carolingian dynasty began with Charlemagne's grandfather Charles Martel, but began its official reign with Charlemagne's father, Pepin the Short, displacing the Merovingian dynasty.
    • One chronicler dates the end of Carolingian rule with the coronation of Robert II of France as junior co-ruler with his father, Hugh Capet, thus beginning the Capetian dynasty.
    • Thus West Francia of the Carolingian dynasty became France.
    • The Carolingian dynasty became extinct in the male line with the death of Eudes, Count of Vermandois.

  • Carolingian Architecture in the Early European Middle Ages

    • Carolingian architecture is characterized by its attempts to emulate late Roman classicism, Christian, and Byzantine styles.
    • Carolingian architecture is the style of northern European Pre-Romanesque architecture belonging to the period of the Carolingian Renaissance of the late eighth and ninth centuries, when the Carolingian dynasty dominated western Europe politically, culturally, and economically.
    • Carolingian architecture is characterized by its conscious attempts to emulate Roman classicism and Late Antiquity architecture.
    • A westwork (German: westwerk) is a monumental, west-facing entrance section of a Carolingian, Ottonian, or Romanesque church.
    • The Palatine Chapel in Aachen demonstrates the Byzantine-influence on Carolingian architecture, evidenced by its octagonal style.

  • The Rise of Charlemagne

    • Charlemagne is considered the greatest ruler of the Carolingian Dynasty because of the actions he took to bring Europe out of turmoil.
    • The expanded Frankish state he founded is called the Carolingian Empire.
    • Charlemagne is considered to be the greatest ruler of the Carolingian Dynasty because of the achievements he made during what seemed like the very middle of the Dark Ages.

  • The Early Middle Ages

    • However, a generally accepted scheme includes Early Christian art, Migration Period art, Byzantine art, Insular art, Carolingian art, Ottonian art, Romanesque art, and Gothic art, as well as many other periods within these central aesthetic styles.
    • The Franks, under the Carolingian dynasty, briefly established the Carolingian Empire during the later eighth and early ninth century.
    • Named after Emmeram of Regensburg and lavishly illuminated, the Codex is an important example of Carolingian art, as well of one of very few surviving treasure bindings of the late ninth century.
    • By the early eighth century, the Merovingian dynasty revived the basilica form of architecture.

  • Rise of the Holy Roman Empire

    • The title continued in the Carolingian family until 888, and from 896 to 899, after which it was contested by the rulers of Italy in a series of civil wars until the death of the last Italian claimant, Berengar, in 924.
    • After Charlemagne died in 814, the imperial crown was disputed among the Carolingian rulers of Western Francia and Eastern Francia, with first the western king (Charles the Bald) and then the eastern (Charles the Fat) attaining the prize.
    • After the death of Charles the Fat in 888, however, the Carolingian Empire broke apart, and was never restored.
    • After the Carolingian king Louis the Child died without issue in 911, East Francia did not turn to the Carolingian ruler of West Francia to take over the realm, but instead elected one of the dukes, Conrad of Franconia, as Rex Francorum Orientalium.
    • Henry the Fowler died in 936, but his descendants, the Liudolfing (or Ottonian) dynasty, would continue to rule the eastern kingdom for roughly a century.

  • Ottonian Painting in the Early European Middle Ages

    • Originally a ducal family from Saxony, the Ottonians (named after their first King Otto I the Great) seized power after the collapse of Carolingian rule in Europe and re-established the Holy Roman Empire.
    • The Ottonian Dynasty desired to confirm a sacred Roman imperial lineage that connected them to the Christian rulers of Late Antiquity such as Constantine and Justinian, as well as to their Carolingian predecessors, particularly Charlemagne.
    • Ottonian art reflected this desire, fusing traditions and influences from late Roman, Byzantine, and Carolingian art.
    • The cross takes its name from the large engraced greenish rock crystal seal near its base, bearing the portrait and name of the Carolingian ruler Lothair II, King of Lotharingia (835-869).

  • Carolingian Metalwork in the Early European Middle Ages

    • Carolingian metalworkers primarily worked with gold, ivory, gems, and other precious materials.
    • Carolingian-era metalworkers primarily worked with gold, gems, ivory, and other precious materials.
    • For instance, luxury Carolingian manuscripts were given treasure bindings and elaborately ornate covers in precious metals set with jewels around central carved ivory panels.
    • Important Carolingian examples of metalwork came out of Charles the Bald's "Palace School" workshop, and include the cover of the Lindau Gospels, the cover of the Codex Aureus of St.
    • Emmeram, 870.Produced by the Carolingian Palace School.

  • The Isaurian Dynasty

    • The Isaurian dynasty is characterized by relative political stability, after an important defeat of the Arabs by Leo III, and Iconoclasm, which resulted in considerable internal turmoil.
    • The Byzantine Empire was ruled by the Isaurian or Syrian dynasty from 717 to 802.
    • By the end of the Isaurian dynasty in 802, the Byzantines were continuing to fight the Arabs and the Bulgars for their very existence, with matters made more complicated when Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne Imperator Romanorum ("Emperor of the Romans") which was seen as making the Carolingian Empire the successor to the Roman Empire or at least the western half.
    • A gold coin, or solidus, engraved with the emperors of the Byzantine Isaurian Dynasty, from c. 780 CE.
    • Describe governmental and religious changes that occured during the Isaurian Dynasty

  • Ottonian Architecture in the Early European Middle Ages

    • Ottonian architecture flourished from the 10th-11th centuries and drew inspiration from Carolingian and Byzantine architecture.
    • Originally a ducal family from Saxony, the Ottonians (named after their first king Otto I the Great) seized power after the collapse of Carolingian rule in Europe and re-established the Holy Roman Empire.
    • Ottonian architecture chiefly drew its inspiration from both Carolingian and Byzantine architecture and represents the absorption of classical Mediterranean and Christian architectural forms with Germanic styles.
    • The Ottonians adopted the Carolingian double-ended variation on the Roman basilica, featuring apses at both ends of the church rather than merely one.
    • Cyriakus is one of the few surviving examples of Ottonian architecture and combines Carolingian elements with innovations that anticipate Romanesque architecture.

  • Carolingian Illustrated Books in the Early European Middle Ages

    • Illuminated manuscripts are the most numerous surviving works of the Carolingian era.
    • Carolingian narrative images and cycles are rarer, but many do exist.
    • Carolingian manuscripts are presumed to have been produced largely or entirely by clerics in a few workshops around the Carolingian Empire.
    • In the early ninth century, Archbishop Ebo of Rheims assembled clerical artists and transformed Carolingian art.
    • The diocese of Metz was another center of Carolingian art.