Two Lives of Charlemagne

by Einhard, Notker the Stammerer, Lewis Thorpe (Translator), Lewis Thorpe (Introduction)

Overview

Charlemagne's name shines out over the historical landscape, illuminating the Dark Ages and anticipating the Renaissance.

These two Lives provide a fascinating contrast, Einhard, who spent twenty-three years in Charlemagne's service, chose to approach his Vita Caroli as a public history and in beautifully expressed language, recounts Charlemagne's personal life and his achievements in warfare, learning, art, building, and in the skilful administration of the state.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780140442137
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	07/30/1969
Series:	Classics Series , #213
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	623,160
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.77(h) x 0.54(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

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 the Stammerer (A.D. 840-912), also called Notker I, Notker the Poet or Notker of Saint Gall, was a musician, author, poet, and Benedictine monk at the Abbey of Saint Gall in modern Switzerland.