Description: This book reassesses the role of the Franks in the early medieval world by studying their relationship to Byzantium and the significance attributed to the Roman heritage that they both shared. The book offers new insights into this key subject of the early Middle Ages, offering a broad overview on important questions related to Mediterranean travels and connectivity, notions of empire, the reception of Antiquity, the use of Greek and Latin, religious community and controversies, and Roman and Byzantine features in Frankish culture.
Review Quotes: "Laury Sarti's fascinating new book forces us to reassess the attitudes of both Franks and Byzantines to the Roman past-and the Roman present-in the Carolingian period. We gain a greater understanding of what Rome meant to them, and how this fitted with the nature and meaning of the complex network of relations between the two political systems across the ninth century." -- Chris Wickham, University of Oxford, Emeritus