Charlemagne and his world
By: by Friedrich Heer.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1975
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780025504509
Subjects: Charlemagne, Emperor, 742-814.; Holy Roman Empire -- Kings and rulers -- Biography.; France -- Kings and rulers -- Biography.
Description: The name Charlemagne is a corruption of the Latin Carolus Magnus -- Charles the Great. The title was given to Charles, king of the Franks, by the clerics of his entourage. As Charlemagne he became, during the Middle Ages, a fabulous symbol of kingship and chivalry. More poems were written about him than any other king, except the somewhat less historical Arthur. There can be no doubt of his claim to greatness. It is impossible to imagine what European history would have been like without his campaigns, his diplomacy and his imagination -- he shaped its course for a thousand years. It is a mark of his historical importance that he is a national hero of both France and Germany, a unique achievement. - p. 9.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 265.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Charles, King of the Franks; title: The rule of the nobles; title: The peasants : freemen, bondmen and slaves; title: The land, rural life and agriculture; title: The Carolingian economy; title: Permanent war; title: King of the Franks and Lombards; title: Wars of the cross : the Saracens; title: Wars of the cross : the Eastern frontier; title: Pope and emperor; title: The Carolingian Renaissance and the court intelligentsia; title: The Frankish church; title: Education and literacy; title: The Carolingian arts; title: The decline of the Carolingian Empire; title: Select bibliography; title: Genealogical tables