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Charlemagne's Mustache: And Other Cultural Clusters of a Dark Age

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Charlemagne's Mustache presents the reader with seven engaging studies, 'thick descriptions', of cultural life and thought in the Carolingian world. The author begins by asking questions. Why did Charlemagne have a mustache and why did hair matter? Why did the king own peacocks and other exotic animals? Why was he writing in bed and could he write at all? How did medieval kings become stars? How were secrets kept and conveyed in the early Middle Ages? And why did early medieval peoples believe in storm and hailmakers? The ...

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Charlemagne's Mustache: And Other Cultural Clusters of a Dark Age 2008, Palgrave MacMillan, New York

ISBN-13: 9780230602472

2004 edition

Trade paperback

Charlemagne's Mustache: And Other Cultural Clusters of a Dark Age 2004, Palgrave MacMillan, New York

ISBN-13: 9781403962232

2004 edition

Hardcover