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Karl F. Morrison, a Medieval scholar. He is co-author (with T.E. Mommsen) of "Imperial Lives and Letters of the 11th Century" and author of two books in press: "Carolingian Coinage" and "The Two Kingdoms: Ecclesiology in Carolingian Political Thought." He holds the B.A. (1956) from the University of Minnesota and the Ph.D. (1961) from Cornell. He has taught at the University of Minnesota since...
...first of the Schatzkammer's ten rooms stands a gaunt, Carolingian ciborium, or altar canopy, wrought in gold for King Arnulf of Carinthia about A.D. 890. The vitrines of other rooms continue the historical procession, running from Gothic goblets through High Renaissance amphorae etched with centaurs to a Napoleonic nécessaire-an elaborate Empire traveling case designed for Bonaparte's second wife, Marie Louise. By way of exotica, the Munich Schatzkammer has a brace of bejeweled Ceylonese chests, Persian daggers and Turkish scimitars, Ming porcelains set in Renaissance gold frames, a Mexican stone mask embellished...
...CAROLINGIAN PORTRAITS (311 pp.)-Eleanor Shipley Duckett-University of Michigan...
...since Dutch rule ended and independence was achieved in 1830. In the north are the farm lands of Flanders, inhabited by a conservative, Catholic people with deep roots in Holland; in the south the spiritedly liberal, anticlerical Walloons occupy what once was the seat of France's Carolingian monarchy. Richer and better educated, the Walloons for a century dominated the country; so seared with bitterness were the Flemings at their second-rate position that many openly collaborated with the Nazis during World...
...Gaulle did not disguise his grand Carolingian design for a Europe dominated by the two nations. France and Germany, he emphasized, must urgently "reinforce their solidarity." Said he: "If we have put aside our quarrels and strife, it is not in order to doze. From this reconciliation we must fashion a common source of power, influence and deeds. L'union, pourquoi...