Charlemagne: The Great Adventure

Charles the Great ( 742-814) towers over every notion we have of national heroes and semi-mythical champions. Charlemagne - Man, Monarch and Myth - is, indeed, ' a great adventure ', To enter into this adventure is to understand more fully the Europe of which we are part. The book block and leaves are tanned. A good, tight copy.

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This Frankish chieftain (born in 742), son of Pepin the Short, repeated the military exploits of Julius Caesar but possessed a mind ignorant of classical culture. He ruled with the sagacity of a Marcus Aurelius, but the general who could order the summary dispatch of 4,500 was equally reminiscent of Caligula. But Charlemagne's activities were not confined to warfare. He introduced Jury Courts, revised the legal system, introduced new coinage, reformed weights and measures, furthered missionary enterprises and monastic reform. He even began a German grammar and promised religious instruction in the vernacular. He lives on as dramatically in legend, particularly in the Chanson de Bland, and his quarter century of imperial splendour is a truly incredible adventure story.

Product Info

ISBN: 0091794617

ISBN-13: 9780091794613

Publisher: Hutchinson

Year: 2005

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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