King and emperor : a new life of Charlemagne /

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 o...

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Main Author: Nelson, Janet L. (Janet Laughland), 1942- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2019]
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505 0 |a Introduction -- Family stories Charles might have known -- The child in the family -- Family fortunes -- Charles in Italy -- Peace and war -- All Saxony subjugated -- Boundary-crossings -- Franks, Bavarians, and new thinking on fidelity -- The Regensburg years -- Saxons, Saracens, Northmen -- The beginning of the end of the Saxon Wars -- Interesting times, dangerous times -- Fin de siècle : debut de siècle -- The Aachen years -- O, Charles, by the bounty of divine grace emperor and Augustus -- Postscript. 
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