800 Figure

Charlemagne crowned Emperor

In Rome, Pope Leo III restores the Western Empire for the King of the Franks — the shared political matrix of France and Germany.

Meanwhile, elsewhere

Within twenty-five years of 800 — the context national timelines leave out.

same year The Book of Kells Ireland
7 years earlier Raid on Lindisfarne Norway

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Which long period

Periods overlap: they are landmarks, not boxes.

Early Middle Ages 476 – 1000 Post-Roman kingdoms, Christianisation, invasions.

Countries involved

Germany
France

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The half-century around 800
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What was written of it

The powers of Europe are so bound to one another that they form an indissoluble system, in which none can be shaken without shaking the rest. All trade enough with one another to be unable to do without one another.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1761

Abstract of the Abbé de Saint-Pierre’s Project for Perpetual Peace

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