• Moduin, a poet of the Carolingian Renaissance, characterises his era as a rebirth of "Golden Rome"?

Facts on topics related to Carolingian Renaissance

Charlemagne

• the Chrysotriklinos, the ceremonial hall of the Great Palace of Constantinople, was the model for Charlemagne's Palatine Chapel in the Palace of Aachen?
• the Annales laureshamenses justify the imperial coronation of Charlemagne (bust pictured) because at the time the title Emperor was unused?
• the Caroline Books were a harsh argument against the Second Council of Nicaea in 787, commissioned by Charlemagne and sent to Pope Adrian I?
• the biography Vita Karoli Magni on the life of Charlemagne is the first of a medieval European king?

Ancient Rome

• ancient Roman brides sat in the lap of Mutunus Tutunus before marriage?
• neoclassical Italian sculptor Giuseppe Ceracchi portrayed George Washington with a Roman haircut and a toga?
• Tarquin the Proud modified the Roman festival of Compitalia to include the sacrifice of children's heads, but upon his expulsion, Brutus substituted heads of garlic and poppies instead?
• wine from the Greek island of Chios, prized in both classical Greece and ancient Rome, was according to mythology the first red wine?
• Cividade de Terroso (map pictured) was one of the main fortified cities of the Castro culture, a stone civilization in Iberia, eventually destroyed by the Romans?
• Eddie Hasha's (pictured) death led to board track racing being compared to Roman gladiators, contributing to the sport's demise?
• Halotus was an Ancient Roman royal servant who, despite being a prime suspect in the poisoning of Claudius in 54 AD, was granted royal stewardship by Galba in 68 AD, even when the public was calling for his death?
• Jewish pirates from Joppa raided traders between Rome and Alexandria, interrupting Rome's grain supply during the First Jewish–Roman War?
• Mavia was an Arab queen who in 378 AD personally led her troops out of southern Syria in revolt against Roman rule?
• Monte Testaccio (pictured) in Rome is an artificial hill, 35 m (115 ft) high and 1 km (3,300 ft) in circumference, consisting entirely of the fragments of 53 million ancient Roman amphorae?

Medieval Latin

• the Anglo-Norman Latin text De obsessione Dunelmi is the first-known history of an English earldom?
• the earliest European term for "cannon" was the Medieval Latin word "bombardum", and that "cannon" itself came from the Latin word canna, meaning a tube?
• the medieval French monk Reginald of Canterbury wrote a long Latin epic poem on Malchus, a Syrian saint whose life was originally recorded by Saint Jerome?
• the medieval poet Frithegod is best known for his Breviloquium Vitae Wilfridi, a Latin poem on the life of St Wilfrid that's been called "one of the most difficult Latin poems written in pre-conquest England"?

Roman Empire

• archaeological digs have greatly expanded knowledge of the history of Swindon, uncovering artefacts from separate Roman, Bronze and Iron Age settlements in the area?
• sandstone blocks used in the construction of St John's Church, Crosscanonby, Cumbria, England, might originate from a former Roman building?
• Argentoratum was an important military Roman outpost on the Rhine, and was rebuilt six times?
• Byzantium under the Komnenoi was the Medieval continuation of the Roman Empire, and played a key role in the history of the Crusades in the Holy Land?
• Gaius Pontius, the Samnite general and victor at the Battle of the Caudine Forks, is believed to be an ancestor of the Roman governor of Judea Pontius Pilate?
• Gessius Florus became the Roman procurator of Judea due to his wife's friendship with Emperor Nero's wife Poppaea?
• Lucceius Albinus had just been appointed Roman procurator and was still on his way to take office in Judea when the High Priest of Israel took advantage of the lack of imperial oversight to assemble a Sanhedrin and had James, the brother of Jesus stoned without Roman authorization?
• Moduin, a poet of the Carolingian Renaissance, characterises his era as a rebirth of "Golden Rome"?
• Portlethen Moss is an acidic bog that played a role in stopping the Roman advance in Scotland and whose traversal was used in the Bishops' Wars?
• a word square found in Mamucium (pictured), a Roman fort in Manchester, may be one of the earliest examples of Christianity in Britain?

Franks

• in 1289, when the Mamluks led by Qalawun captured Tripoli (depicted in artwork) in present-day Lebanon from the Franks, they ended 180 years of uninterrupted Christian rule, the longest of any of the major Frankish conquests in the Levant?
• the Lombard duke Euin had to twice defend the Duchy of Trent from the Franks, in 584 by battle and in 591 by diplomacy?
• the Palestinian village of Balata was a Frankish settlement during the Crusades?
• the Islamic Emirate of Bari in Southern Italy was conquered in 871 by Frankish and Lombard ground forces under Louis II of Italy, together with a Croatian fleet?
• the present day use of arrhae in weddings can be traced back to the Visigoth and Frank culture?
• when Frankish Crusaders ran out of food after the Siege of Maarat in 1098, they proceeded to massacre the city's Saracen inhabitants and eat them?

Carolingian art

• Carolingian art permitted the drawing of human figures during the Iconoclasm controversy of the 9th century?