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Period
768–888 CE
The Carolingian Empire grew from the Frankish kingdoms and reached its greatest extent under Charlemagne, who was crowned emperor in 800. Its rulers governed through royal households, counts, monasteries and military obligations across a vast and culturally varied territory.
After Charlemagne’s death, disputes among his descendants divided the empire into competing kingdoms. Viking attacks, aristocratic rivalry and repeated civil wars weakened central authority while shaping the later kingdoms of France and Germany.
This context supports fiction about Charlemagne’s dynasty, Frankish politics, Christian kingship and Viking conflict in ninth-century Europe.
Series
Set in the fractured Carolingian world of the mid-ninth century, the Charlemagne’s Cross series follows the Danish jarl Sven and his Christian grandson Charles as rival kings, Viking warlords and competing faiths struggle for power. The novels move between Denmark and the Frankish kingdoms, combining family conflict, political…
Books
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Non Fiction
Histories, biographies and reference works are listed separately from the historical novels above.
