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Charlemagne's Mustache: And Other Cultural Clusters of a Dark Age

Charlemagne's Mustache: And Other Cultural Clusters of a Dark Age

Dutton, P.

Hardcover

Series: New Middle Ages

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryFrench HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1403962235
ISBN13: 9781403962232
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Jun 30 2004
Pages: 279
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.86 Width: 6.60 Depth: 8.08
Language: English
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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