The Early Middle Ages | The Carolingian Renaissance (Lecture 16)

Lecture 16: The fear that educational deficiencies were jeopardizing the salvation of souls and interfering with the ability of people to call on God for help drove the Carolingian Renaissance, which flourished in the second half of the 8th century and, especially, in the first half of the 9th century. The scholars of the Carolingian Renaissance attempted to rid the Latin language of the changes that had occurred since the heyday of the Roman Empire and to establish accurate and standardized copies of crucial texts, such as the Bible. This desire to create clean copies of texts led to certain innovations, including various conventions in writing that made (and make) texts easier to read, as well as a new type of handwriting that we use even today.

Suggested Readings:
Donald Bullough. The Age of Charlemagne. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1966.
———. Alcuin: Achievement and Reputation. Brill Academic Publishers, 2002.

Lecture 17: https://www.bitchute.com/video/RURppDw1bU3T/