How One Family Made the Dark Ages Less "Dark"

This is the story of the Ottonians, the descendants of Otto the Great, who steered Germany and Italy through the dawn of a new millennium.

Sources & further reading: - Heart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman Empire (Peter H. Wilson) - Otto III (Gerd Althoff) - Death and Life in the Tenth Century (Eleanor Duckett) - Warfare in Medieval Europe c.400-c.1453 (Bernard S. Bachrach, David S. Bachrach) - Warfare in Tenth-Century Germany (David S. Bachrach) - Germany in the Early Middle Ages 800-1056 (Timothy Reuter) - "Kaiserin Theophano: The political, economic and cultural deeds of a Byzantine princess who became empress of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation" (Emmanouel Economou) - The Complete Works of Liudprand of Cremona (translated by Paolo Squatriti) - Hrotsvit of Gandersheim: Contexts, Identities, Affinities, and Performances (Brown, McMillin, Wilson) - A 10th-century Monk in the Caliph's Court (Nancy Marie Brown) - The Abacus and the Cross (Nancy Marie Brown) - Charting the “Rise of the West”: Manuscripts and Printed Books in Europe, A Long-Term Perspective from the Sixth through Eighteenth Centuries (Eltjo Buringh & Jan Luiten Van Zanden) - Age of Faith (Will Durant) - The Wandering Scholars (Helen Waddell)

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