Charlemagne's Mustache: And Other Cultural Clusters of a Dark Age (The New Middle Ages)

by PaulEdwardDutton (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2008

  $115.57

  Charlemagne's Mustache presents the reader with seven engaging studies, 'thick descriptions', of cultural life and thought in the Carolingian world. 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?