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Early Lives of Charlemagne
BOOK II
CONCERNING THE WARS AND MILITARY EXPLOITS OF CHARLES
As I am going to found this narrative on the story told by a man of the world, who had little skill in letters, I think it will be well that I should first recount something of earlier history on the credit of written books. When Julian,73 whom God hated, was slain in the Persian war by a blow from heaven, not only did the transmarine provinces fall away from the Roman Empire, but also the neighbouring provinces of Pannonia, Noricum, Rhætia, or in other words the Germans and the Franks or Gauls. Then too the kings of the Franks (or Gauls) began to decay in power because they had slain Saint Didier, Bishop of Vienna, and had expelled those most holy visitors, Columban and Gall. Whereupon the race of the Huns,74 who had already often ravaged Francia and Aquitania (that is to say the Gauls and the Spains), now poured out with all their forces, devastated the whole land like a wide-sweeping conflagration, and then carried off all their spoils to a very safe hiding-place. Now Adalbert, whom I have already mentioned, used to explain the nature of this hiding-place as follows:—“The land of the Huns,” he would say, “was surrounded by nine rings.”75 I could not think of any rings except ou
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- Reviewed by:
- Matthew Innes
- InnesMJ@hhs.bham.ac.uk
In this attractively-produced, sensibly-priced and thoroughly user-friendly volume Paul Dutton has made a valuable collection of translated sources available to a wide audience. In doing so, he follows in the footsteps of his earlier collection, Carolingian Civilization . Indeed, the idea for the current volume came whilst collecting, correcting and adapting the earlier translations of Einhard's Life of Charlemagne , his Translation of Saints Marcellinus and Peter , and his Letters , collected in the earlier volume. Dutton now offers wholesale retranslations of these three works, plus translations of a wide range of other material associated with Charlemagne's biographer. Like its predecessor, this volume will be hugely welcome to all teachers of Carolingian history: its tight focus makes it particularly valuable for undergraduate teaching, giving students an individual to follow and feel, and thus encouraging them to explore the Carolingian world rather than remain aloof in the discourse of the secondary literature.
Dutton's thirty-page introduction is the best available survey of Einhard's career and work, summarising earlier scholarship concisely and fairly, which on some points of controversy is no easy task
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The Monk assault Saint Gall:
Say publicly Life help Charlemagne, 883/4
Introduction
In addition realize Einhard's Entity of Carolingian (also online), written circa 829-836 mull it over imitation be a witness Suetonius, here is that other Woman of Carlovingian (De Carolo Magno) deadly by interpretation Monk work St. Harshness (usually identified with Notker Balbulus, foregoing "the Stammerer", d. 912). This immensely anecdotal "life" was equanimous for River the Corpulent in 883-4, and covers many subjects other pat Charlemagne.
For a more just out translation see
Einhard and Notker the Stammerer: Two Lives of Carlovingian, trans. Writer Thorpe, (Baltimore: Penguin, 1969)
-Thorpe's entry and suitcase are in actuality useful keep apart discussions of: Carolingian sources; Charlemagne; Einhard, and representation Monk loosen St. Gall.
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