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Charlemagne's Daughter

Author : Dena Miller
Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1604945397
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Charlemagne's Daughter written by Dena Miller and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A document found in an old monastery reveals the true history of the tempestuous year of 792 AD, plus kidnapping, murder, and romance. Charlemagne's natural son Peppin conspires with five noblemen to overthrow his father and usurp the throne. Peppin is unaware that his half-sister Rotrud has been kidnapped by vassals who plot to sell her to ransom the crown, scheming with Belinda, Rotrud's handmaid. Rotrud's lover, Rorgo, and Charlemagne race to save her while the plotters commit a vile murder. Only Charlemagne can settle the punishment of the evildoers and the future of his son. Can Rorgo and Rotrud find a solution to Charlemagne's refusal to allow them to marry? And who wrote this old document? About the Author Dena Miller wrote a one-act play in third grade and hasn't stopped writing since. She was a teenage pilot, won prizes in competitive speech and drama, and played third base in a government girls' baseball league. Dena played saxophone in a band, and now owns three ukuleles (one tenor) which she plays, as well as a Hammond organ and a keyboard. She is a docent/volunteer at two famous western museums. A children's book and a collection of short story murder mysteries are on the horizon. She lives in Southern California.

Charlemagne

Author : Matthias Becher
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300107586
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Charlemagne written by Matthias Becher and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlemagne was the first emperor of medieval Europe and almost immediately after his death in 814 legends spread about his military and political prowess and the cultural glories of his court at Aix-la-Chapelle.

Charlemagne's Mustache

Author : P. Dutton
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137062282
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Charlemagne's Mustache written by P. Dutton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlemagne's Mustache presents the reader with seven engaging studies, 'thick descriptions', of cultural life and thought in the Carolingian world. The author begins by asking questions. Why did Charlemagne have a mustache and why did hair matter? Why did the king own peacocks and other exotic animals? Why was he writing in bed and could he write at all? How did medieval kings become stars? How were secrets kept and conveyed in the early Middle Ages? And why did early medieval peoples believe in storm and hailmakers? The answers, he found, are often surprising.

Two Lives of Charlemagne

Author : Einhard
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780140442137
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book Two Lives of Charlemagne written by Einhard and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1969-07-30 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two revealingly different accounts of the life of the most important figure of the Roman Empire Charlemage, known as the father of Europe, was one of the most powerful and dynamic of all medieval rulers. The biographies brought together here provide a rich and varied portrait of the king from two perspectives: that of Einhard, a close friend and adviser, and of Notker, a monastic scholar and musician writing fifty years after Charlemagne's death. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Life of Charlemagne

Author : Einhard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Life of Charlemagne written by Einhard and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Charlemagne's Practice of Empire

Author : Jennifer R. Davis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316368599
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book Charlemagne's Practice of Empire written by Jennifer R. Davis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-20 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revisiting one of the great puzzles of European political history, Jennifer R. Davis examines how the Frankish king Charlemagne and his men held together the vast new empire he created during the first decades of his reign. Davis explores how Charlemagne overcame the two main problems of ruling an empire, namely how to delegate authority and how to manage diversity. Through a meticulous reconstruction based on primary sources, she demonstrates that rather than imposing a pre-existing model of empire onto conquered regions, Charlemagne and his men learned from them, developing a practice of empire that allowed the emperor to rule on a European scale. As a result, Charlemagne's realm was more flexible and diverse than has long been believed. Telling the story of Charlemagne's rule using sources produced during the reign itself, Davis offers a new interpretation of Charlemagne's political practice, free from the distortions of later legend.

Gisela, Daughter of Charlemagne

Author : Lois Amsel Jarman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780981725109
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (251 download)

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Download or read book Gisela, Daughter of Charlemagne written by Lois Amsel Jarman and published by . This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gisela, the young daughter of Charlemagne, wakes up to a wonderful and exciting day in the castle. Young readers will learn about a real medieval princess through the adventures of Gisela. A beginning level chapter book, the Gisela stories offer a history lesson to all young princess enthusiasts.

Charlemagne's Courtier

Author : Paul Edward Dutton
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442608501
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Charlemagne's Courtier written by Paul Edward Dutton and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1998-02-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the readings included are several existing letters by Emma (Einhard's wife), The Life of Charlemagne, and The History of His Relics. The latter work transports us into an almost unknown world as Einhard, the cool rationalist, arranges for a relic salesman, a veritable bone seller, to acquire saints’ relics from Italy for installation into his new church. The reader is taken on an intrigue-filled trip to Rome, where Einhard's men creep into churches at night to steal bones and then spirit them away to Einhard in the north. The relics are received in town after town as if they were the living saints come to cure the infirm. Einhard's descriptions of the sick, the lame, and the blind of northern Europe vividly expose us to a side of medieval life too rarely encountered in other medieval sources.

Charlemagne

Author : Johannes Fried
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674973410
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Charlemagne written by Johannes Fried and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-10 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Charlemagne died in 814 CE, he left behind a dominion and a legacy unlike anything seen in Western Europe since the fall of Rome. Distinguished historian and author of The Middle Ages Johannes Fried presents a new biographical study of the legendary Frankish king and emperor, illuminating the life and reign of a ruler who shaped Europe’s destiny in ways few figures, before or since, have equaled. Living in an age of faith, Charlemagne was above all a Christian king, Fried says. He made his court in Aix-la-Chapelle the center of a religious and intellectual renaissance, enlisting the Anglo-Saxon scholar Alcuin of York to be his personal tutor, and insisting that monks be literate and versed in rhetoric and logic. He erected a magnificent cathedral in his capital, decorating it lavishly while also dutifully attending Mass every morning and evening. And to an extent greater than any ruler before him, Charlemagne enhanced the papacy’s influence, becoming the first king to enact the legal principle that the pope was beyond the reach of temporal justice—a decision with fateful consequences for European politics for centuries afterward. Though devout, Charlemagne was not saintly. He was a warrior-king, intimately familiar with violence and bloodshed. And he enjoyed worldly pleasures, including physical love. Though there are aspects of his personality we can never know with certainty, Fried paints a compelling portrait of a ruler, a time, and a kingdom that deepens our understanding of the man often called “the father of Europe.”

Gisela's Holiday Story

Author : Lois a. Jarman
Publisher : Medieval Maidens, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9780996516419
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book Gisela's Holiday Story written by Lois a. Jarman and published by Medieval Maidens, LLC. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First in the holiday series of beginning chapter books for the young history enthusiast! The Medieval Maidens Holiday series lets readers become part of the special day of real princesses who lived in real medieval castles. Gisela's holiday takes place on the Feast of All Saints. Readers learn what life was like this holiday was like in the 9th century.

The Christ Child in Medieval Culture

Author : Mary Dzon
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 144262518X
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book The Christ Child in Medieval Culture written by Mary Dzon and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cult of the Christ Child flourished in late medieval Europe across lay and religious, as well as geographic and cultural boundaries. Depictions of Christ's boyhood are found throughout popular culture, visual art, and literature. The Christ Child in Medieval Culture is the first interdisciplinary investigation of how representations of the Christ Child were conceptualized and employed in this period. The contributors to this unique volume analyse depictions of the Christ Child through a variety of frameworks, including the interplay of mortality and divinity, the medieval conceit of a suffering Christ Child, and the interrelationships between Christ and other figures, including saints and ordinary children. The Christ Child in Medieval Culture synthesizes various approaches to interpreting the cultural meaning of medieval religious imagery and illuminates the significance of its most central figure.

Women In Dark Age And Early Medieval Europe c.500-1200

Author : Helen Jewell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350307106
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Women In Dark Age And Early Medieval Europe c.500-1200 written by Helen Jewell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2006-10-04 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period 1200-1550 opened in a time of population expansion but went on to suffer the demographically cataclysmic effects of the plague, beginning with the Black Death of 1347-51. The period dawned with a confident papacy and the Albigensian crusade against heretics and ended with the Catholic church torn apart by the Protestant Reformation. Huge challenges were affecting society in various ways, but they did not always affect men and women in the same ways. Helen M. Jewell provides a lively survey of western European women's activities and experiences during this timeframe. The core chapters investigate: - The function of women in the countryside and towns - The role of women in the ruling and landholding classes - Women within the context of religion This practical centre of the book is embedded in an analysis of the gender theories inherited from the earlier Middle Ages which continued to underpin laws which restricted women's activity, an education system which offered them inferior institutional provision, and a church which denied them ministry. Three individuals who vastly exceeded these expectations, crashing through the 'glass ceilings' of their day, are brought together in a fascinating final chapter. Combining a historiographical survey of trends over the last thirty years with more recent scholarship, this is as indispensable introduction for anyone with an interest in women's history from the late Medieval period through to the Reformation.

Her Father’s Daughter

Author : Lucy K. Pick
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501714333
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Her Father’s Daughter written by Lucy K. Pick and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Her Father's Daughter, Lucy K. Pick considers a group of royal women in the early medieval kingdoms of the Asturias and of León-Castilla; their lives say a great deal about structures of power and the roles of gender and religion within the early Iberian kingdoms. Pick examines these women, all daughters of kings, as members of networks of power that work variously in parallel, in concert, and in resistance to some forms of male power, and contends that only by mapping these networks do we gain a full understanding of the nature of monarchical power. Pick's focus on the roles, possibilities, and limitations faced by these royal women forces us to reevaluate medieval gender norms and their relationship to power and to rethink the power structures of the era. Well illustrated with images of significant objects, Her Father's Daughter is marked by Pick's wide-ranging interdisciplinary approach, which encompasses liturgy, art, manuscripts, architecture, documentary texts, historical narratives, saints' lives, theological treatises, and epigraphy.

The Legend of Charlemagne in Medieval England

Author : Phillipa Hardman
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843844729
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book The Legend of Charlemagne in Medieval England written by Phillipa Hardman and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2017 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-length examination of the medieval Charlemagne tradition in the literature and culture of medieval England, from the Chanson de Roland to Caxton. The Matter of France, the legendary history of Charlemagne, had a central but now largely unrecognised place in the multilingual culture of medieval England. From the early claim in the Chanson de Roland that Charlemagne held England as his personal domain, to the later proliferation of Middle English romances of Charlemagne, the materials are woven into the insular political and cultural imagination. However, unlike the wide range of continental French romances, the insular tradition concentrates on stories of a few heroic characters: Roland, Fierabras, Otinel. Why did writers and audiences in England turn again and again to these narratives, rewriting and reinterpreting them for more than two hundred years? This book offers the first full-length, in-depth study of the tradition as manifested in literature and culture. It investigates the currency and impact of the Matter of France with equal attention to English and French-language texts, setting each individual manuscript or early printed text in its contemporary cultural and political context. The narratives are revealed to be extraordinarily adaptable, using the iconic opposition between Carolingian and Saracen heroes to reflect concerns with national politics, religious identity, the future of Christendom, chivalry and ethics, and monarchy and treason. PHILLIPA HARDMAN is Readerin Medieval English Literature (retired) at the University of Reading; MARIANNE AILES is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Bristol.

King and Emperor

Author : Janet L. Nelson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520973941
Total Pages : 705 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book King and Emperor written by Janet L. Nelson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "King and Emperor takes on the compelling suspense of good detective work as well as good history."—The Wall Street Journal 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 I, sifting through the available evidence, literary and material, to paint a vivid portrait of the man and his motives. Building on Nelson’s own extraordinary knowledge, this biography is a sort of detective story, prying into and interpreting fascinating and often obdurate scraps of evidence, from prayer books to skeletons, gossip to artwork. 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—even to the present day—have struggled to interpret, misinterpret, copy, or subvert his legacy. Janet Nelson gets us as close as we can hope to come to the real figure of Charles the man as he was understood in his own time.

Charlemagne

Author : Joanna Story
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719070891
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Charlemagne written by Joanna Story and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2005-06-04 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses directly on the reign of Charlemagne, bringing together a wide range of perspectives and sources with contributions from fifteen of the top scholars of early medieval Europe. The contributors have taken a number of original approaches to the subject, from the fields of archaeology and numismatics to thoroughly-researched essays on key historical texts. The essays are embedded in the scholarship of recent decades but also offer insights into new areas and new approaches for research. A full bibliography of works in English as well as key reading in European languages is provided, making the volume essential reading for experienced scholars as well as students new to the history of the early middle ages.

Charlemagne

Author : Alessandro Barbero
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520297210
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Charlemagne written by Alessandro Barbero and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2018-02-23 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most important study of Charlemagne in a generation, this biography by distinguished medievalist Alessandro Barbero illuminates both the man and the world in which he lived. Charles the Great—Charlemagne—reigned from a.d. 768 to a.d. 814. At the time if his death, his empire stretched across Europe to include Bavaria, Saxony, parts of Spain, and Italy. With a remarkable grasp of detail and a sweeping knowledge of Carolingian institutions and economy, Barbero not only brings Charlemagne to life with accounts of his physical appearance, tastes and habits, family life, and ideas and actions but also conveys what it meant to be king of the Franks and, later, emperor. He recounts how Charlemagne ruled his empire, kept justice, and waged wars. He vividly describes the nature of everyday life at that time, how the economy functioned, and how Christians perceived their religion. Barbero's absorbing analysis of how concepts of slavery and freedom were subtly altered as feudal relations began to grow underscores the dramatic changes that the emperor's wars brought to the political landscape. Engaging and informed by deep scholarship, this latest account provides a new and richer context for considering one of history's most fascinating personalities.