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January 13, 2012 Leave a Comment

Charlemagne’s End

Today's installment concludes Charlemagne,our selection from A Popular History of France from the EarliestTimes, Volume 1 by François P.G. Guizot

January 12, 2012 Leave a Comment

Science, Literature, and Charlemagne

He really loved sciences, literature, and such studies as were then possible, and he cultivated them on his own account and for his own

January 11, 2012 Leave a Comment

Charlemagne and His Intellectuals

Charlemagne had too much need of their services to fear their criticisms and they, on their part, were more anxious to second his efforts.Continuing

January 9, 2012 Leave a Comment

Charlemagne’s Laws

When an attempt is made to classify these laws according to their object, it is impossible not to be struck with their incoherent variety.Continuing

January 8, 2012 Leave a Comment

Charlemagne Assembles His Lords

There is need of no great reflection to recognize the true character of these assemblies.Continuing Charlemagne,our selection from A Popular

January 7, 2012 Leave a Comment

How Charlemagne Governed

A distinction must be drawn between the local and central governments.Continuing Charlemagne,our selection from A Popular History of France from

January 6, 2012 Leave a Comment

Charlemagne Crowned Emperor

At the moment when, in his place before the altar, he was bowing down to pray, Pope Leo placed on his head a crown, and all the Roman people

January 5, 2012 Leave a Comment

Charlemagne Organizes His Empire

The center of the dominion was no longer in ancient Gaul; he had transferred it to a point not far from the Rhine, in the midst and within reach of

January 4, 2012 Leave a Comment

Charlemagne Attacks Saracens in Spain

The Song of Roland, a real Homeric poem in its great beauty, and yet rude and simple as became its national character, bears witness to the prolonged

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