In celebration of the scholarship and teaching of Professor Thomas Noble thirteen of his friends and collaborators address in their turn topics that have fascinated Noble throughout his distinguished career. The essays – most of them are related either to recent or to forthcoming monographs of the various authors – cover a very wide spectrum of fields as well as of periods, from late antiquity (Giselle de Nie's study of Arator) to the Thirty Years War in Karl F. Morrison's examination of Christian denominational polemics (sixteenth/seventeenth centuries) in connection with the Libri Carolini. All are focused on Carolingian themes in the broad sense of the term ‘Carolingian’. Three essays in particular are concerned with manuscripts: John J. Contreni edits a new Vita Virgilii from Laon, Rosamond McKitterick transcribes and translates Tours inserts from the ninth/tenth century into a copy of the Liber pontificalis today at Leiden, and Rachel Fulton Brown examines the uses of psalters and gives a precise list of content for the ‘Arundel Psalter’ today in the British Library. It is a welcome surprise to see two papers that specifically address material culture: Maureen C. Miller on the sources of textiles in Rome and Julia M. H. Smith on the different types of wrappings, protecting and identifying relics of the papacy, especially those preserved at Sancta Sanctorum. Art history is represented by Lawrence Nees's historiography of the debates relating to the Vienna Gospels. Textual analysis by Janet Nelson points to the different currents of pilgrimages and their contradictions, John van Engen presents an interesting image of the various implications of baptism and ‘christianising’, and Walter Pohl looks at marriage in the light of a letter of Pope Stephen iii. Two particularly interesting contributions are by David Ganz on the Astronomer's Life of Louis the Pious and by Mayke de Jong on Paschasius Radbertus and Pseudo-Isidore, emphasising that the Epitaphium Arsenii reflects the events of the 850s and that Radbert was not necessarily but only likely instrumental in the production of the famous Pseudo-Isidorian Decretals. This carefully produced volume is a must-read for every scholar of the early Latin Middle Ages.