Hans J. Hummer is Assistant Professor of History, Wayne State University. He has published articles in a number of journals including Early Medieval Europe, Francia and Deutsches Archiv.

"...[W]ell written in clear, and often elegant, prose...This book makes an important contribution to the growing body of newer scholarship on the Carolingian Empire...It deserves to be considered in equal measure by historians interested in the connection between monastic reform movements and the transformation of territorial lordships and familial self-perception in the eleventh century." -John Eldevik, Pomona College, Canadian Journal of History

• Introduction; 1. The late Merovingian order; 2. Conquest and continuity; 3. The Carolingians and ecclesiastical property; 4. Reaction and resistance; 5. The politics of old German; 6. Imperial unity and regional power; 7. The late Carolingian order; 8. The tenth-century transformation; Conclusions.

Hans J. Hummer is Assistant Professor of History, Wayne State University. He has published articles in a number of journals including Early Medieval Europe, Francia and Deutsches Archiv.

"...[W]ell written in clear, and often elegant, prose...This book makes an important contribution to the growing body of newer scholarship on the Carolingian Empire...It deserves to be considered in equal measure by historians interested in the connection between monastic reform movements and the transformation of territorial lordships and familial self-perception in the eleventh century." -John Eldevik, Pomona College, Canadian Journal of History

• Introduction; 1. The late Merovingian order; 2. Conquest and continuity; 3. The Carolingians and ecclesiastical property; 4. Reaction and resistance; 5. The politics of old German; 6. Imperial unity and regional power; 7. The late Carolingian order; 8. The tenth-century transformation; Conclusions.