Name: Two Lives of Charlemagne von Einhard
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Two Lives of Charlemagne Zusammenfassung

Two Lives of Charlemagne Einhard

This is an absorbing chronicle of one of the most powerful and dynamic of all medieval rulers, written by a close friend and adviser. In elegant prose it describes Charlemagne's personal life, details his achievements in reviving learning and the arts, recounts his military successes and depicts one of the defining moments in European history: Charlemagne's coronation as emperor in Rome on Christmas day 800. By contracts, Notker's account, written sone decades after Charlemagne's death, is a collection of anecdotes rather thamn a presentation of historical facts.

Über Einhard

EINHARD was born of noble parents in the Main valley around A.D. 770. He was educated at the monastery of Fulda, and was sent in the 790's to the court of Charlemagne. He became a friend of Charlemagne and his family, and was chosen to invite Charlemagne to crown his son as his successor in 813. After Charlemagne's death he was a loyal servant of Louis the Pious, both in Aachen and on his estates at Seligenstadt, where he died in 840. In addition to the Life of Charlemagne, probably written in 826-7, we have letters to and from Einhard, his account of the Translation of the Relics of Marcellinus and Peter (830) and On the Adoration of the Cross. NOTKER BALBULUS ( The Stammerer) was born near the monastery of St Gall, in Switzerland, around 840, and entered the monastery as a boy. He wrote his account of Charlemagne for the Emperor Charles the Fat between 884 and 887. He also composed a book of sequences with music, a Martyrology (897), and poems, letters and charters. He taught at the monastic school until his death in 912.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Charlemagne, King and Emperor; Einhard the Frank; the "Vita Caroli" of Einhard; the stammering monk of Saint Gall; the "De Carolo Magno" of Notker the stammerer, monk of Saint Gall. The life of Charlemagne: Walahfrid Strabo's prologue; Einhard's introduction; book I - the early Carolingians; book II - the wars and political affairs of Charlemagne; book III - the Emperor's private life; book IV - the Emperor's last years and death; book V - Charlemagne's last will and testament. Charlemagne: book I - the piety of Charlemagne and his care of the Church; book II - the wars and the military exploits of Charlemagne.

Zusätzliche Informationen

Sku

GOR001951981

ISBN 13

9780140442137

ISBN 10

0140442138

Titel

Two Lives of Charlemagne Einhard

Autor

Einhard

Zustand

Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Broschiert

Verlag

Penguin Books Ltd

Datum

1974-10-31

Anzahl der Seiten

240

Preise

N/A

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