Towering over the World War I battlefield at Verdun, a giant statue of Charlemagne—the Frankish king crowned the first Holy Roman Emperor on Christmas Day, 800 AD—rests its arms on a mighty broadsword ...
EUROPE CAME INTO the world as a political idea in the year 800, or so many historians have long argued. That was the moment when Charlemagne, the leader of the rising Carolingian dynasty, received the ...
The tale of Charles I, more commonly known as Charlemagne, has been recounted by historians for centuries. Between 768 and 814, he ruled as king of the Franks, king of the Lombards and, most ...
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