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A scholar from this dynasty quoted sources like a young girl possessed by the demon Wiggo and a blind man’s dream of the archangel Gabriel in a book on the “Translation” of two saints whose bodies he had stolen. A scholar from this dynasty decried the belief that hail is dropped by sailors from the sky-realm of Magonia. Dhuoda (“DOO-oh-dah”) wrote a Handbook for her son during this dynasty, (10[1])whose (10[1])intelligentsia’s (10[1])mania for nostalgic correctio (“core-REK-tee-oh”) reforms influenced a capitulary called the General Admonition. Kings of this dynasty kept tabs on their provinces through pairs of a lay official and an ecclesiastical (10[1])official called missi dominici (10[5])(“MISS-see doh-MIH-nih-kee”). During this dynasty, the modern style of spacing between words was invented (10[2])for a “minuscule” (10[2])script (10[2])used at the Palace (10[1])School by monks under the direction of a scholar from York. (10[4])For (10[1])10 points, (10[1])Einhard and Alcuin (10[2])(“AL-quin”) wrote during what dynasty’s “Renaissance”? ■END■

ANSWER: Carolingian dynasty [or Carlovingians or Karolinger, accept Carolingian Renaissance; accept Carolingian minuscule] (Einhard wrote about the translation of Saints Marcellinus and Peter.)
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