Charlemagne's Survey of the Holy Land: Wealth, Personnel, and Buildings of a Mediterranean Church between Antiquity and the Middle Ages Critical Edition and Translation of the Original Text: Michael McCormick In Charlemagne’s Survey of the Holy Land, Michael McCormick rehabilitates and reinterprets one of the most neglected and extraordinary sources from Charlemagne’s revival of the Roman empire: the report of a fact-finding mission to the Christian church of the Holy Land. He edits and translates a roll of documents that preserves the most detailed statistical portrait of female and male personnel, monuments (including exact dimensions), and finances of any major Christian church before Domesday Book. Setting its documents in the broader context of economic trend since late antiquity and the archaeological evidence, and comparing the Holy Land churches and monasteries to their contemporaries in the West and East, this study shows that the Palestinian church was living in reduced circumstances; overall it was on the decline as its old financial links with Byzantium slackened. Charlemagne’s move to outflank the Byzantine emperor, McCormick constructs a microhistory of the Frankish king’s ambitions and formidable organizational talents for running an empire. This volume supplements McCormick’s other major synthesis, The Origins of the European Economy, and will be indispensable reading for anyone interested in Mediterranean, economic and church history, medieval rulership, and the Holy Land, its Christian communities, and its late antique monuments.