![]() ![]() ![]() Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. It describes his personal life, details his achievements in reviving learning and the arts, recounts his military successes and depicts one of the defining moments in European history: Charlemagne's coronation as emperor in Rome on Christmas Day 800 AD. A chronicle of one of the most powerful and dynamic of all medieval rulers, Charlemagne. 770 - 814 Summons to Charlemagne's Army, c. Einhard retired from court during the time of the disputes between Louis and his sons in the spring of 830. In 814, on Charlemagne's death, his son Louis the Pious made Einhard his private secretary. Einhard: The Wars of Charlemagne, excerpts from the Life of Charlemagne, c. Despite the fact that Einhard was on intimate terms with Charlemagne, he never achieved office in his reign. By contrast, Notker's account, written some decades after Charlemagne's death, is a collection of anecdotes rather than a presentation of historical facts. The Monk of Saint Gall (Notker the Stammerer): The Life of Charlemagne, c. In elegant prose it describes Charlemagne's personal life, details his achievements in reviving learning and the arts, recounts his military successes and depicts one of the defining moments in European history- Charlemagne's coronation as emperor in Rome on Christmas Day 800AD. Einhard's Two Lives of Charlemagne is an absorbing chronicle of one of the most powerful and dynamic of all medieval rulers, written by a close friend and adviser. ![]()
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