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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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.