Charlemagne /
"Charlemagne - ruler of the vast Frankish kingdom from 768 to his death in 814 and emperor from the year 800 - is considered the father of Europe. He founded the first empire in western Europe after the fall of Rome, and his court at Aix-la-Chapelle was a center of classical learning and a focu...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Alemán |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©2003.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- I. The highpoint of his reign: the imperial coronation of Charlemagne on Christmas Day in the year 800
- II. From the fall of the Roman Empire in the West to Charlemagne's accession to power in 768: a short history of the kingdom of the Franks
- III. Charlemagne's youth and the first years of his reign: from son of the Mayor of the palace to Conqueror of Italy
- IV. The expansion of the Frankish Kingdom in the East: Saxons, Bavarians, and Avars
- V. Charlemagne, the papacy, and the Byzantine Emperor
- VI. Ruling the empire
- VII. Charlemagne's family and the arrangement of his succession
- VIII. Hero and saint: the afterlife of Charlemagne.