After the fall of the Roman Empire, different script styles appeared all throughout the European continent, such as the Uncial, Beneventan, Merovingian and, in the Iberian Peninsula, the Visigothic. This process culminated with Charlemagne, who put his personal calligrapher and librarian Alcuin of York, in charge of creating a new type of script of greater clarity and harmony, nowadays known as Carolingian or Caroline. This way, Charlemagne not only managed to push for a political unity in Europe, but also, thanks to Alcuin the monk, to create a new calligraphic style that would unify the texts that were produced both in Palace and in the monasteries.