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Author : Clemens Gantner
Release : 2020-12-17
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 779/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis After Charlemagne by : Clemens Gantner
Download or read book After Charlemagne written by Clemens Gantner. This book was released on 2020-12-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers new perspectives on the fascinating but neglected history of ninth-century Italy and the impact of Carolingian culture.
Author : Clemens Gantner
Release : 2020-12-17
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 631/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis After Charlemagne by : Clemens Gantner
Download or read book After Charlemagne written by Clemens Gantner. This book was released on 2020-12-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together the foremost scholars of early medieval Italy, After Charlemagne offers new perspectives on the politics, culture, society and economy of ninth-century Italy and paints a vivid picture of a multifaceted peninsula with complex international relations, a fascinating but neglected period of Italian history.
Author : Einhard
Release : 1898
Genre : France
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Book Synopsis Life of Charlemagne by : Einhard
Download or read book Life of Charlemagne written by Einhard. This book was released on 1898. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Janet L. Nelson
Release : 2021-06-08
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 214/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis King and Emperor by : Janet L. Nelson
Download or read book King and Emperor written by Janet L. Nelson. This book was released on 2021-06-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles I, often known as Charlemagne, is one of the most extraordinary figures ever to rule an empire. Driven by unremitting physical energy and intellectual curiosity, he was a man of many parts, a warlord and conqueror, a judge who promised 'for each their law and justice', a defender of the Latin Church, a man of flesh-and-blood. In the twelve centuries since his death, warfare, accident, vermin, and the elements have destroyed much of the writing on his rule, but a remarkable amount has survived. Janet Nelson's wonderful new book brings together everything we know about Charles, sifting through the available evidence, literary and material, to paint a vivid portrait of the man and his motives. Charles's legacy lies in his deeds and their continuing resonance, as he shaped counties, countries, and continents, founded and rebuilt towns and monasteries, and consciously set himself up not just as King of the Franks, but as the head of the renewed Roman Empire. His successors--in some ways even up to the present day--have struggled to interpret, misinterpret, copy, or subvert his legacy.
Author : Johannes Fried
Release : 2016-10-10
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 410/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Charlemagne by : Johannes Fried
Download or read book Charlemagne written by Johannes Fried. This book was released on 2016-10-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Charlemagne died in 814 CE, he left behind a dominion and a legacy unlike anything seen in Western Europe since the fall of Rome. Distinguished historian and author of The Middle Ages Johannes Fried presents a new biographical study of the legendary Frankish king and emperor, illuminating the life and reign of a ruler who shaped Europe’s destiny in ways few figures, before or since, have equaled. Living in an age of faith, Charlemagne was above all a Christian king, Fried says. He made his court in Aix-la-Chapelle the center of a religious and intellectual renaissance, enlisting the Anglo-Saxon scholar Alcuin of York to be his personal tutor, and insisting that monks be literate and versed in rhetoric and logic. He erected a magnificent cathedral in his capital, decorating it lavishly while also dutifully attending Mass every morning and evening. And to an extent greater than any ruler before him, Charlemagne enhanced the papacy’s influence, becoming the first king to enact the legal principle that the pope was beyond the reach of temporal justice—a decision with fateful consequences for European politics for centuries afterward. Though devout, Charlemagne was not saintly. He was a warrior-king, intimately familiar with violence and bloodshed. And he enjoyed worldly pleasures, including physical love. Though there are aspects of his personality we can never know with certainty, Fried paints a compelling portrait of a ruler, a time, and a kingdom that deepens our understanding of the man often called “the father of Europe.”
