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Emperor of the West: Charlemagne and the Carolingian Empire
Hywel Williams
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Description for Emperor of the West: Charlemagne and the Carolingian Empire
Paperback. The life, times and historical legacy of the man who created modern Europe. Num Pages: 448 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1DDF; BGH; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 39. Weight in Grams: 326.
Through his foreign conquests and internal reforms, Charlemagne is a defining figure of both Western Europe and the Middle Ages. Crowned king of the Franks in 768, he expanded their kingdoms into an empire that incorporated much of western and central Europe, recreating a single Christian imperium in the heartlands of the old Western Roman empire for the first time since the decline and fall of that polity in the late fifth century AD. After his imperial coronation Charlemagne was seen as a rival, in power and majesty, of the Byzantine Emperor in Constantinople. Charlemagne's empire, and the cultural golden ... Read more
Through his foreign conquests and internal reforms, Charlemagne is a defining figure of both Western Europe and the Middle Ages. Crowned king of the Franks in 768, he expanded their kingdoms into an empire that incorporated much of western and central Europe, recreating a single Christian imperium in the heartlands of the old Western Roman empire for the first time since the decline and fall of that polity in the late fifth century AD. After his imperial coronation Charlemagne was seen as a rival, in power and majesty, of the Byzantine Emperor in Constantinople. Charlemagne's empire, and the cultural golden ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857381620
SKU
V9780857381620
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About Hywel Williams
Hywel Williams is a historian, journalist and broadcaster. He is the author of the political exposé Guilty Men, Cassell's Chronology of World History (2005) and Britain's Power Elites (2006). His Quercus credits include Days that Changed the World (2006) and Sun Kings (2007).
Reviews for Emperor of the West: Charlemagne and the Carolingian Empire
'a substantial and worthwhile volume ... a valuable book' Journal of Ecclesiastical History.
Journal of Ecclesiastical History
'A magisterial survey of the great European emperor, of the Latin culture of his court and the political extent of his domains' A.N. Wilson, Observer.
Observer
'This scholarly and meticulously researched biography is a book one really does want ... Read more
Journal of Ecclesiastical History
'A magisterial survey of the great European emperor, of the Latin culture of his court and the political extent of his domains' A.N. Wilson, Observer.
Observer
'This scholarly and meticulously researched biography is a book one really does want ... Read more