"My project is to edit the Latin creed commentaries and explanations of the faith found in over two hundred Carolingian manuscripts (mid-eighth to end-ninth century) . The project will 1} make known and accessible a large number of entirely unedited Latin texts; 2} supply new, critical editions of older, often inaccurate, published commentaries on the creeds, employing manuscripts not used in previous editions; and 3} bring together for the first time a significant portion of the Carolingian literature pertaining to the interpretation of the creeds. In its larger context, this project is a contribution to the study of the Carolingian Renaissance, or Carolingian Reform. Long acknowledged as one of the greatest historical enterprises of western civilization, its implementation and transforming effect on the lives and institutions of the people across nascent Europe are still little explained."