The king who commissioned the Susannah Crystal was descended from one of the great figures of medieval Europe - Charlemagne. Around 800, Charlemagne, King of the Franks, had created an empire that ...

Flaxseed was cultivated in Babylon as early as 3000 BC. In the 8th century, King Charlemagne believed so strongly in the health benefits of flaxseed that he passed laws requiring his subjects to ...

The crowning and anointing by Adalbero of Hugh Capet at Noyon, the site of Charlemagne’s coronation as king of the Franks in 768, with the sacred chrism reserved for Frankish kings, and his symbolic ...