The Age of Charlemagne

London, UK: ELEK BOOKS LIMITED, 1965. Hardcover. Good/Good. 4to - over 9?" - 12" tall. Type: Ex-Library Hardcover Ex-Library Quarto and Dust Jacket in Good Condition. Except for minimal, usual library marks, in Very Good Condition. 87 Plates, inb/w and full color; 4 maps. Jacket illus: Statue of Charles, east end of Church of St. Johann, Munstair in Grison, Switzerland. Back side: Manuscript page: The Adorations of the Lamb from the Gospels of Saint-Nedard-de-Soissons, Paris. Red cloth binding is clean, some extremities rubbed; sewn binding tight, solid and square. Internals very clean, no marks of any kind, nocreases. Lavislhy illustrated. A masterpiece of social history-a penetrating and vivid portrait of life in the Carolingian age. Includes more than 100 illustrations of Carolingian art, creating a detailed and realistic description of how the people of the Carolingian empire lived, felt, and thought. It traces the Carolingian Age from the chaos which followed the breakdown of Roman government and tribal customs to the establishment of the two great pillars of the medieval state, the church and feudalism. Europe in 814 when Charlemagne did was a very different place from Europe, 742, the probable date of his birth. 212 pages with index. 8.75 x 11 inches. 1965, ELEK BOOKS LIMITED, London, UK. Simultaneoulsy publishes by The Ryerson Press, Toronto, Canada.