Theme: The campaigns of Charlemagne

• Owen Rees, 'Historical introduction’.
• Gareth Williams, ‘Atrocity or apology – Charlemagne the mass murderer?’.
• Filippo Donvito, ‘Over the Alps – Charlemagne’s Italian campaign’.
• Sidney Dean, ‘Felling the Irminsul – The Saxon campaigns’.
• Robert Holmes, ‘Men of Iron – The Carolingian army’.
• Jean-Claude Brunner, ‘A reign at an end – Charlemagne versus the Avars’.
• Patrick Baker, ‘To build and destroy – Carolingian combat engineers’.

Features:

• The Weapon/Blacksmithing– Jeffrey Hildebrand, ‘A little bird told me – Insight through reproduction’.
• The Weapon – Arnold Blumberg, ‘Drawn and quartered – The law of treason in medieval England’.
• The Debate – Alexander Querengasser, ‘Triumph for the heretics – The Battle of Aussig’.