Discontent and disinheritance, 750-792 CE -- Fathers and sons, 800-814 CE -- Sisters and nephews, 814-823 CE -- Sex, witchcraft, and angry nobles, 828-831 CE -- Deposed, 833-834 CE -- The king is dead, long live the kings, 835-840 CE -- Feints and provocations, June 840 -- June 841 CE -- Fontenoy : Saturday June 25, 841 CE -- The earth recoils in horror, June 841 -- February 842 CE -- Oathmakers, February -- December 842 CE -- Grieving empire and grieving mothers, December 842- August 843 CE -- Epilogue : monument to the ghosts of empire, ca. 1860 CE

"The story of the Carolingian Civil War, a bloody, protracted battle pitting brother against brother, father against son, that would end an empire, upend a continent, and lay down the modern borders of Europe"--