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- Type
- Book
- Publication Name
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- Updated ISBN2
- 9781541409026
- Updated ISBN1
- 1541409027
- Publish Year
- 2016
- ISBN
- 9780674737396
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674737393
ISBN-13
9780674737396
eBay Product ID (ePID)
222064993
Product Key Features
Book Title
Charlemagne
Number of Pages
688 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Topic
Europe / France, Europe / General, Historical, Europe / Medieval
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.8 in
Item Weight
42.4 Oz
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2016-013071
Reviews
In this splendid biography, Fried shows that Charlemagne remains a figured to be reckoned with even 12 centuries after his death. The book, excellently translated by [Peter] Lewis, is arranged by topic, rather than chronology. This format helps to clearly present a broad pictureeThis is a magisterial study of the life and times of the Frankish king who became the first Holy Roman Emperor., Johannes Fried has put forth a valiant effort in untangling the wheat from the chaff in Charles the Great's life. Charlemagne is viewed as a flawed leader who cared about his kingdom and his religion, even if his approach could be questioned. An excellent view of a mysterious monarch., [A] big, immensely satisfying life of the semi-legendary medieval Frankish king Charlemagne...[and] expertly translated by Peter Lewis... Instead of a legend, Fried builds a convincingly three-dimensional portrait of a man-a complicated, forceful, often contradictory man... There has never been a Charlemagne biography to appear in English that comes close to matching this big book from Fried... Fried has come as close as we're every likely to get to knowing the man., Fried is a retired professor of medieval history but also thoroughly contemporary, a gleeful debunker who spends many pages demonstrating that the relatively few 'known facts' about Charlemagne rest on shaky foundations...The biography offers a first-rate survey of the war-torn eighth century., Charlemagne is relentless in the accumulation of detail and austerely comprehensive in its endnotes... This Charles the Great is unmistakably Karl der Grosse... Matching the mood of our times, blood-flecked Realpolitik and smoldering religious intolerance are very much to the fore... Few [Charlemagne biographies] capture so well the unlovely realities of Carolingian politics and the sheer technical difficulty of ruling a medieval empire in the absence of a state apparatus., [A] big, immensely satisfying life of the semi-legendary medieval Frankish king Charlemagne...[and] expertly translated by Peter Lewis... Instead of a legend, Fried builds a convincingly three-dimensional portrait of a man--a complicated, forceful, often contradictory man... There has never been a Charlemagne biography to appear in English that comes close to matching this big book from Fried... Fried has come as close as we're every likely to get to knowing the man., In this splendid biography, Fried shows that Charlemagne remains a figure to be reckoned with even 12 centuries after his death. The book, excellently translated by [Peter] Lewis, is arranged by topic, rather than chronology. This format helps to clearly present a broad picture...This is a magisterial study of the life and times of the Frankish king who became the first Holy Roman Emperor., An engaging and delightful read. It is well placed to foster curiosity and shed light on a lesser known period of history and this 'late dark-age' king...Lewis's translation of Fried's work is successful in exposing a side of Charlemagne that most works do not. The translation provides English readers with a considered account of Charlemagne's educational ideals, his relationship with Christianity and the Papacy and his attempts to construct a unified kingdom in something of an unstable world. The author creates a Charlemagne who tried his best to provide for his people in their physical lives as well as their afterlives...It is one of the most accessible and perhaps well-rounded accounts of Charlemagne currently available., For those who wish to grapple with Charlemagne's life in its entirety, without false certainties, Fried's book is the best choice.
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
944/.0142092
Synopsis
When the legendary Frankish king and emperor Charlemagne died in 814 he left behind a dominion and a legacy unlike anything seen in Western Europe since the fall of Rome. Johannes Fried paints a compelling portrait of a devout ruler, a violent time, and a unified kingdom that deepens our understanding of the man often called the father of Europe., 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."
LC Classification Number
DC73.F7513 2016
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