Furniture bureautique charlemagne biography

History of the medieval Carolingian Empire's furniture, art, and architecture.

Furniture bureautique charlemagne biography

The Carolingian dynasty of Charlemagne.

The Carolingian Dynasty

For much of the early Middle Ages European systems of governance and order underwent fragmentation and decay, from the break up the Roman Empire in the fifth century AD.

This trend was only arrested by the rise of the Carolingian dynasty under Charlemagne. In 771 Charlemagne, otherwise called Charles the Great, assumed leadership of the Franks in central Europe, what is today Germany, more or less.

In 800 AD he was crowned "Emperor of the Romans" thus symbolically, and to a certain extent practically, becoming a link between the pined-after lost glory and power of the Roman Empire and what was to take its place.

Portrait of Charlemagne by Albrecht Durer.

The Carolingian Renaissance

The reign of Charlemagne is sometimes called the Carolingian Renaissance, 800-900 AD, because of the rene