Carolingian Chronicles: Royal Frankish Annals and Nithard's HistoriesThe most comprehensive contemporaneous record of the rise and fall of the Carolingian Empire |
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Good translation, and very well annotated. As someone below remarked, not a book to read for the general reader, but then again I don't see why a "general reader" would read a translation of an early mediaeval manuscript. It's not like they wrote detective novels back then...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Italy on the Eve of Carolingian Intervention | 41 |
Saxony | 52 |
Campaigns in and beyond Pannonia | 72 |
Central Regions of the Empire | 79 |
The Carolingian Empire at the Death of Charlemagne in 814 | 98 |
Sites of the Conflicts between Louis the Pious and His Sons | 132 |
Notes | 175 |
Bibliography | 213 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Carolingian Chronicles: Royal Frankish Annals and Nithard's Histories Volume 186 of Ann Arbor paperbacks |
| Author | Nithard |
| Editors | Bernhard Walter Scholz, Barbara Rogers |
| Translated by | Bernhard Walter Scholz, Barbara Rogers-Gardner, Barbara Rogers |
| Compiled by | Bernhard Walter Scholz |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | University of Michigan Press, 1972 |
| ISBN | 0472061860, 9780472061860 |
| Length | 235 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Europe / Medieval |
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