Early Carolingian Warfare: Prelude to Empire

by Bernard S. Bachrach

Book Overview

Without the complex military machine that his forebears had built up over the course of the eighth century, it would have been impossible for Charlemagne to revive the Roman empire in the West. Early Carolingian Warfare is the first book-length study of how the Frankish dynasty, beginning with Pippin II, established its power and cultivated its military expertise in order to reestablish the regnum Francorum, a geographical area of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812221443
• ISBN13: 9780812221442
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"