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Author | : Johannes Fried |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 696 |
Release | : 2016-10-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0674737393 |
Boyhood -- The Frankish empire and the wider world -- The warring king -- Power structures -- The ruler -- The royal court -- Reviving the title of emperor -- Imperator Augustus -- Epilogue: myths and sainthood
Author | : Matthias Becher |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780300107586 |
Charlemagne was the first emperor of medieval Europe and almost immediately after his death in 814 legends spread about his military and political prowess and the cultural glories of his court at Aix-la-Chapelle.
Author | : Richard Winston |
Publisher | : New Word City |
Total Pages | : 101 |
Release | : 2015-10-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1612309208 |
From his father, Charlemagne inherited only a part of the Frankish kingdom - little more than half of modern France and the Low Countries. Before his astonishing career had ended, he had conquered half of Europe and his armies had marched through Italy, Germany, and Spain. In a glittering Christmas Day ceremony in Rome, in the year 800, he was crowned the new Holy Roman Emperor. More than the heroic conqueror of Western Europe, Charlemagne was an intense and thoughtful human being. His succession of five wives brought him a palace full of children. So warm was his love for his daughters that he could never bear to see them married away from the court, even though enticing alliances with other rulers were offered them. A deeply religious man, Charlemagne became the protector of orthodox Christianity against medieval heresies. A patron of learning, he established schools and brought artists and scholars to his court to work and study. As a result, most classical literature comes down to us in copies of books made in Charlemagne's time. Here, from National Book Award winner Richard Winston, is his remarkable story.
Author | : Joanna Story |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2005-06-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780719070891 |
This book focuses directly on the reign of Charlemagne, bringing together a wide range of perspectives and sources with contributions from fifteen of the top scholars of early medieval Europe. The contributors have taken a number of original approaches to the subject, from the fields of archaeology and numismatics to thoroughly-researched essays on key historical texts. The essays are embedded in the scholarship of recent decades but also offer insights into new areas and new approaches for research. A full bibliography of works in English as well as key reading in European languages is provided, making the volume essential reading for experienced scholars as well as students new to the history of the early middle ages.
Author | : Stéphanie Félicité comtesse de Genlis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 1797 |
Genre | : French fiction |
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Author | : Paul Edward Dutton |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1998-02-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1442608501 |
Among the readings included are several existing letters by Emma (Einhard's wife), The Life of Charlemagne, and The History of His Relics. The latter work transports us into an almost unknown world as Einhard, the cool rationalist, arranges for a relic salesman, a veritable bone seller, to acquire saints’ relics from Italy for installation into his new church. The reader is taken on an intrigue-filled trip to Rome, where Einhard's men creep into churches at night to steal bones and then spirit them away to Einhard in the north. The relics are received in town after town as if they were the living saints come to cure the infirm. Einhard's descriptions of the sick, the lame, and the blind of northern Europe vividly expose us to a side of medieval life too rarely encountered in other medieval sources.
Author | : Janet L. Nelson |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2024-10-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 104024467X |
A major theme in the volume of articles by Janet Nelson is the usefulness of gender as a category of historical analysis. Papers range widely across early medieval time and geographical as well as social space, but most focus on the Carolingian period and on royalty and elites. The workings of dynastic political power are viewed in social as well as political context, and the author explores the realities of gendered power, which while constraining women, gave them distinctive possibilities for agency. These papers offer new perspectives on the Carolingian world in general and on Charlemagne's reign in particular.
Author | : Richard Eugene Sullivan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : Europe |
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Author | : Henry William Carless Davis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 1899 |
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Author | : Janet Laughland Nelson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
A major theme in the present volume of articles by Janet Nelson is the usefulness of gender as a category of historical analysis. Some papers range more widely across early medieval time and geographical as well as social space, but most focus on the Carolingian period and on royalty and elites. The workings of dynastic political power are viewed in social as well as political context, and the author explores the realities of gendered power, which while constraining women, gave them distinctive possibilities for agency. These papers offer new perspectives on the Carolingian world in general and on Charlemagne's reign in particular.