Sentence:  The <WSD>Carolingian minuscule</WSD>, which we have already found brought to perfection at Tours and at other centres of France, was the literary hand of the Frankish Empire, and extended its influence and was gradually adopted in neighbouring countries. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A script developed to standardise writing in the Latin alphabet throughout the Holy Roman Empire, used between approximately 800 and 1200 CE.