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The History of the Lombards by Paul the Deacon drew heavily on other works, especially about prior times. One of these was a 7th-century w...

Paul the Deacon assembled information from some of the greatest scholars and historians and his own observations to create his Historia Lan...

Paul the Deacon (c.720s – 13 April c.796-799) has many writings attributed to him (some probably erroneously, like a life of Gregory the Gr...

Winfrid was born about 720 in the Duchy of Friuli, the northern part of the Italian Peninsula that was the kingdom of the Lombards. His pare...

There was a rebellion against Charlemagne in 792 by a handful of Frankish nobles headed by Charlemagne's eldest son, Pepin the Hunchback...

Charlemagne's first son was named Pepin. Shortly after his birth he developed a spinal deformity that has caused historians to refer to...

Charlemagne's first known child was Pepin the Hunchback by his concubine Himiltrude. Born about 768, he was raised at his father's ...

Continuing with Hildegard of Vinzgau, Charlemagne's official second wife (as opposed to a concubine like Himiltrude): with her he had ni...

Let me tell you about Theophilus the Penitent, a Christian cleric who was the archdeacon of Adana in Cilicia (now Turkey). He was known for ...

Far from being a complete intellectual vacuum in the years between the decline of Rome and the Renaissance, Europe experienced three distinc...

Paul the Deacon Paulus Diaconus (c.720-c.799) wrote the hymn of St. John, and it goes like this: Ut queant laxis re sonāre fibris Mi ...