King and emperor : a new life of Charlemagne / Janet L. Nelson.
Publisher: London : Allen Lane, 2019Description: xxxv, 667 pages : illustrations, maps, genealogical tables (black and white).Content type: text | still image | cartographic images Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780713992434.Subject(s): Charlemagne, Emperor, 742-814 | France -- Kings and rulers -- Biography | France -- History -- To 987DDC classification: 920Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 920 CHA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 017880 |
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Family stories Charles might have known -- The child in the picture -- Family fortunes -- Charles in Italy -- Peace and war, 774-9 - The family deployed, '... all Saxony subjugated' -- Boundary-crossings -- Franks, Bavarians and new thinking, 787-9 -- The Regensburg years -- Saxons, Saracens, Northmen and the Council of Frankfurt, 792-4 -- The beginning of the end of the Saxon wars, 792-9 -- Interesting times, dangerous times -- Fin de siècle, début de siècle : Romanum gubernans imperium -- The Aachen years -- 'Charles, by the bounty of divine grace emperor and augustus ... to his beloved and honourable brother Michael glorious emperor and augustus' -- By way of conclusion.