Annales regni FrancorumThe 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 I | 1 |
Italy on the Eve of Carolingian Intervention | 41 |
Saxony | 52 |
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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Aachen abbot Adalgis Adalhard Aistulf Alamannia annalists Annals Aquitaine army arrived assembly Avars battle Bavaria Bernard Bishop brother Bulgars Byzantine camp campaign Carloman Carolingian castle celebrated Christmas Charlemagne Charles's Church Constantinople Count crossed Danes date changed defeated Desiderius died dispatched duke Easter Einhard Elbe embassy emissaries emperor empire envoys father fled fleet Frankish Franks Grimoald held Heriold Holy hostages Hunald Italy June Karl der Grosse King Pepin king's kingdom land Ljudovit Lombards Lord King Charles Lothair Louis and Charles Louis the Pious magnates Mainz March meantime Metz Meuse Meyer monastery Nithard nobles Norsemen oaths Obodrites ordered palace Pannonia peace pope promised Quierzy received returned home returned to Aachen returned to Francia revolt Rhine River Roman Rome Royal Frankish Annals Saracens Saxons sent Slavs sons of Godofrid Spoleto swore sworn Tassilo Thionville took troops villa Wattenbach-Levison-Lowe Weser Wilzi Worms
Bibliographic information
| Title | Annales regni Francorum Volume 186 of Ann Arbor paperbacks |
| 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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