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Africa Alcuin Aquitaine Aquitanian Arabs Arian Arnulfings Augustine Austrasia Austrasian barbarian Bavaria Benedict bishops blood Boniface Burgundians Byzantine Byzantium called Carolingian Carolingian renaissance Cassiodorus Catholic Charlemagne Charles Charles the Bald chieftains Christian church Clovis Constantinople contemporaries Dagobert death defence dynasty East Eastern Einhard Emperor Empire enemies estates Europe fight Francia Frankish Franks Frisians Fulda Gallo-Roman Gaul Germanic Gothic Goths Gregory Gregory's Hincmar historian Huns imperial interest Italy king kingdom kingship lands later Latin lived Lombards lord Louis the Pious magnates medieval Mediterranean Merovingian Middle Ages missionary monasteries monastic monks natural Neustrian never ninth century northern Ostrogoths Ottonians pagan papacy Pepin perhaps political Pope predecessors province raids Ravenna reconquest Reims Rhine Roman Rome Rothari royal rule Salian Saracen Saxons scholars seemed social solidi Southern Gaul Spain successors survived territory Theodoric took trade tradition tribes Vandals vendetta victory Visigoths warrior West Western writing