Author: AstronomusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Son of Charlemagne
Charlemagne and Louis the Pious
Author: Thomas F. X. NoblePublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271058846
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Carolingian historical texts have long stood at the base of our modern knowledge about the eighth and ninth centuries. The ninth century gave birth to a new revival of secular biography, which has come to be recognized as one of the brightest bands in the spectrum of Carolingian historical writing. This collection brings together, for the first time in one volume, the five royal/imperial biographies written during the Carolingian period. Thomas F. X. Noble’s new English translations of these five important texts—Einhard’s Life of Emperor Charles, Notker’s Deeds of Charles the Great, Ermoldus Nigellus’s Poem in Honor of Louis, Thegan’s Deeds of Emperor Louis, and the Life of Louis by “the Astronomer”—are each accompanied by a short introduction and a note on “Essential Reading.” Offering details on matters of style, sources used by the author, and the influence, if any, exerted by the text, Noble provides a context for each translation without compromising the author’s intended voice. By “reuniting” these five essential medieval texts in an English translation, this volume makes these voices accessible to scholars and non-experts alike throughout the Anglophone world.
Charlemagne's Heir
Author: Peter GodmanPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
This is a unique, comprehensive study of the life and reign of Louis the Pious who, in the early ninth century, inherited the empire of Charlemagne. The collection of essays, written by an international team of leading scholars, presents the fruits of intensive and wide-ranging research. Written in English, French, and German, and covering such topics as politics and the royal court, military expansion, the church, the law, literature, art, and architecture, this invaluable collection will offer a new perspective on the reign of Louis the Pious for all students of the Carolingian period.
Struggle for Empire
Author: Eric Joseph GoldbergPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801438905
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Struggle for Empire explores the contest for kingdoms and power among Charlemagne's descendants that shaped the formation of Europe through the reign of Charlemagne's grandson, Louis the German (826 876)."
King and Emperor
Author: Janet L. NelsonPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520383214
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
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 of the Latin Church, a man of flesh-and-blood. In the twelve centuries since his death, warfare, accident, vermin, and the elements have destroyed much of the writing on his rule, but a remarkable amount has survived. Janet Nelson's wonderful new book brings together everything we know about Charles, sifting through the available evidence, literary and material, to paint a vivid portrait of the man and his motives. Charles's legacy lies in his deeds and their continuing resonance, as he shaped counties, countries, and continents, founded and rebuilt towns and monasteries, and consciously set himself up not just as King of the Franks, but as the head of the renewed Roman Empire. His successors--in some ways even up to the present day--have struggled to interpret, misinterpret, copy, or subvert his legacy.
Life of Charlemagne
Author: EinhardSon of Charlemagne
Author: AstronomusCharlemagne and the Carolingian Empire
Author: Louis HalphenPublisher: North-Holland
ISBN:
Category : Carolingians
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Past Convictions
Author: Courtney M. BookerPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812201388
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
How do people, in both the past and the present, think about moments of social and political crisis, and how do they respond to them? What are the interpretive codes by which troubling events are read and given meaning, and what part do these codes play in suggesting specific strategies for coping with the world? In Past Convictions Courtney Booker attempts to answer these questions by examining the controversial divestiture and public penance of Charlemagne's son, the Emperor Louis the Pious, in 833. Historians have customarily viewed the event as marking the beginning of the end of the Carolingian dynasty. Exploring how both contemporaries and subsequent generations thought about Louis's forfeiture of the throne, Booker contends that certain vivid ninth-century narratives reveal a close but ephemeral connection between historiography and the generic conventions of comedy and tragedy. In tracing how writers of later centuries built upon these dramatic Carolingian accounts to tell a larger story of faith, betrayal, political expediency, and decline, he explicates the ways historiography shapes our vision of the past and what we think we know about it, and the ways its interpretive models may fall short.
Louis the Pious and the Carolingian Kingdoms
Author: Rene PoupardinPublisher: Jovian Press
ISBN: 1537804243
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
IT was at his winter home at Doué, early in February 814, that Louis of Aquitaine received the news of his father's death, which had been immediately sent to him by his sisters and the magnates who had espoused his cause. It is a difficult matter to discern through the self-interested encomiums of biographers and the calumnies set afloat by political opponents, the real character of the man who had now taken over the burdensome heritage left by the Emperor Charles. Louis, who was at this time thirty-six years old, was, in form and manners, a tall, handsome man, broad-shouldered, with a strong voice, skilled in bodily exercises, fond, as his ancestors were, of the chase, but less easily led away by the seductions of passion and good cheer...