ABSTRACT
The first six centuries following the dissolution of the Western Roman Empire are often distinguished, as the 'Dark Ages' , from the later mediaeval period between about 1 100 and the Renaissance, during which the flowering of mediaeval civilization recovered much of the
ground lost in the turmoil of earlier years.2 However, currently historians rightly pay tribute to the work of early mediaeval scholars, not least for their part in the provision of material for the teaching of Latin, during the Carolingian years, in particular (early ninth century).
