'This volume will be welcomed equally by established scholars and should ensure that this valuable resource appears even more in future research.' Geoffrey D. Dunn, Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association The volume under review presents excellent translations accompanied by helpful notes, a substantial introduction and an Index that is full enough to be really valuable. Given its core text and all these resources and tools, this book will be immensely useful for years to come. Thomas F. X. Noble, The Medieval Review Simply to have these translated letters collected into one volume will allow, even propel, deeper engagement of these letters as vital witnesses to the complexities of the Italian and Frankish realities of the eighth century. It will further invigorate, the already flourishing world of Carolingian studies and will no doubt stand the test of time as the first port of call for the translated text... this work will be invaluable for students, teachers and researchers. Christopher Heath, Al-Masq Rosamond McKitterick has spent most of her illustrious career building our knowledge of the Carolingian Empire, its sophisticated textual culture, and its relationship with Rome this volume makes an important body of textual evidence much more accessible and will appeal to anyone interested in medieval scribal cultures and Latin literature, as well the more general history of eighth-century Europe. The authors are to be congratulated on their superb contribution to the study of the early Carolingian period, its key players, and its epistolary legacy. Bronwen Neil, Early Medieval Europe
