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Two Lives of Charlemagne - Couverture souple

Einhard; Notker The Stammerer

 
9780140455052: Two Lives of Charlemagne
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0140455051 ISBN 13 : 9780140455052
Editeur : Penguin Classics, 2008

Synopsis

Einhard's Life of Charlemagne 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 800AD. By contrast, Notker's account, written some decades after Charlemagne's death, is a collection of anecdotes rather than a presentation of historical facts.

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À propos de l'auteur

EINHARD was born of noble parents in the Main valley around A.D. 770. 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, and he died in 840.

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.

David Gantz is Professor of English at Kings College, London.

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Éditeur
Penguin Classics
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0140455051
ISBN 13 
9780140455052
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
160
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