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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nelson, Janet L. (Janet Laughland), 1942- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2019]
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.