School of Reims

The term is also used of an artistic style in Carolingian art, lasting into Ottonian art in works such as the gold relief figures on the cover of the Codex Aureus of Echternach, which in fact were probably made in Trier in the 890s.

Archbishop Ebbo (d. 851) promoted artistic production at the abbey at Hautvillers, near the city.

Major works probably made there in the 9th century include: the Ebbo Gospels (816–835), the Utrecht Psalter, which was perhaps the most important of all Carolingian manuscripts, and the Bern Physiologus.

Soon after Gerbert left the school declined in prominence and there is little record of it in the first half of the 11th century.

From about 1076 to 1094 the next chancellor of the school was the poet Godfrey of Rheims who maintained its high reputation.