Codex Epistolaris Carolinus: Letters from the Popes to the Frankish Rulers, 739-791

by Rosamond McKitterick, Richard Pollard, Dorine Van Espelo

Book Overview

The Codex epistolaris Carolinus preserves ninety-nine letters, dated between 739 and 791 and sent by the popes to the Frankish king Charlemagne and his predecessors. The compilation was commissioned by Charlemagne in 791, but the sole surviving medieval manuscript of the letters was made at Cologne in the later ninth century and is now in Vienna ( sterreichische Nationalbibliothek Cod. 449). The headings or lemmata provided for each...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1802078258
• ISBN13: 9781802078251
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 546 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.7" x 7.9"