Charlemagne’s Mustache and other Cultural Clusters of a Dark Age

Charlemagne’s Mustache and other Cultural Clusters of a Dark Age

Author
Paul Edward Dutton (auth.)
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Language
English
Edition
1
Year
2004
Page
XVI, 279
ISBN
978-0-230-60247-2, 978-1-137-06228-4
File Type
pdf
File Size
29.4 MiB

Charlemagne's Mustache presents the reader with seven engaging studies, 'thick descriptions', of cultural life and thought in the Carolingian world. The author begins by asking questions. Why did Charlemagne have a mustache and why did hair matter? Why did the king own peacocks and other exotic animals? Why was he writing in bed and could he write at all? How did medieval kings become stars? How were secrets kept and conveyed in the early Middle Ages? And why did early medieval peoples believe in storm and hailmakers? The answers, he found, are often surprising.

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