About the Book: Charlemagnes Dream: The Rise and Fall of the Carolingian Empire
A sweeping, definitive history of the dynamic, expansionist dynasty that forged
the Middle Ages-and Europe-as we know it.
Today, the Carolingians are best known as the dynasty of Charlemagne. In a few
remarkable decades spanning the late eighth and early ninth centuries,
Charlemagne united much of modern-day Europe through conquest and diplomacy,
establishing the continents first empire since the fall of Rome.
In Charlemagnes Dream, historian James T. Palmer looks beyond Charlemagne alone
to tell the full story of the rise and fall of the massively consequential
Carolingian dynasty-the