Some Carolingian questions from Charlemagne’s days
David Ganz
Paris, BNF Latin 4629, is a manuscript containing Frankish law-codes, capitularies of Charlemagne and formulae, most probably copied in Bourges at the start ninth century. It has been linked with court by Donald Bullough. Amid legal texts, it contains dialogue that offers insights into some questions Charlemagne's subjects sought to answer. By offering transcription translation, this chapter first provides teaching source for those who want understand thoughts, especially about religion ethics, then explores where these answers may have come from, why they might here. That exploration is, course, an exercise what call historical imagination others guesswork. As such, stands as tribute scholar given author strongest support guessing how Carolingians thought acted.
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