HSPLS site
Login
My List - 0
Help
Search
My Account
Databases
HI Newspaper
eBooks/Audiobooks
Learning
PC Reservation
Reading Program
Basic
Advanced
Power
History
Search:
Title Browse
Author Browse
Subject Browse
Best Seller Browse
Music Title Browse
Video/DVD Title Browse
Journal/Newspaper Title Browse
Serial Title Browse
Series Browse (includes Bestseller List)
General Keyword
Title Keyword
Author Keyword
Subject Keyword
Name Keyword
Series Keyword
Score Title Browse
Talking Book Title Browse
Awards Note Browse
Bib No.
Barcode
Refine Search
> You're searching:
HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
Item Information
Holdings
Summary
More Content
More by this author
Fried, Johannes, author.
Subjects
Charlemagne, Emperor, 742-814.
Holy Roman Empire -- Kings and rulers -- Biography.
France -- History -- To 987.
Holy Roman Empire -- History -- To 1517.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Fried, Johannes, author.
by title:
Charlemagne / Johann...
MARC Display
Charlemagne / Johannes Fried ; translated by Peter Lewis.
by
Fried, Johannes, author.
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, c2016.
Subjects
Charlemagne, Emperor, 742-814.
Holy Roman Empire -- Kings and rulers -- Biography.
France -- History -- To 987.
Holy Roman Empire -- History -- To 1517.
ISBN:
9780674737396 (hardcover : alkaline paper) :
0674737393 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
Description:
xi, 673 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, plans, portraits ; 25 cm
Contents:
Boyhood -- The Frankish empire and the wider world -- The warring king -- Power structures -- The ruler -- The royal court -- Reviving the title of emperor -- Imperator Augustus -- Epilogue: myths and sainthood.
Requests:
0
Summary:
"When Charlemagne died in 814 CE, he left behind a dominion and a legacy unlike anything seen in Western Europe since the fall of Rome. Distinguished historian and author of The Middle Ages Johannes Fried presents a new biographical study of the legendary Frankish king and emperor, illuminating the life and reign of a ruler who shaped Europe's destiny in ways few figures, before or since, have equaled. Living in an age of faith, Charlemagne was above all a Christian king, Fried says. He made his court in Aix la Chapelle the center of a religious and intellectual renaissance, enlisting the Anglo Saxon scholar Alcuin of York to be his personal tutor, and insisting that monks be literate and versed in rhetoric and logic. He erected a magnificent cathedral in his capital, decorating it lavishly while also dutifully attending Mass every morning and evening. And to an extent greater than any ruler before him, Charlemagne enhanced the papacy's influence, becoming the first king to enact the legal principle that the pope was beyond the reach of temporal justice a decision with fateful consequences for European politics for centuries afterward. Though devout, Charlemagne was not saintly. He was a warrior king, intimately familiar with violence and bloodshed. And he enjoyed worldly pleasures, including physical love. Though there are aspects of his personality we can never know with certainty, Fried paints a compelling portrait of a ruler, a time, and a kingdom that deepens our understanding of the man often called "the father of Europe."--Provided by publisher.
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Copy
Status
Hawaii Kai Public Library
Adult Biography
B Charlemagne Fr
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Hawaii State Library
Language, Literature & History
944.0142 Charlemagne Fr
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Hilo Public Library
Adult Biography
B Charlemagne Fr
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Kahuku P/S Library
Adult Biography
B Charlemagne Fr
BIOGRAPHY
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Kailua Public Library
Adult Biography
B Charlemagne Fr
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Kapolei Public Library
Adult Biography
B Charlemagne Fr
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Lihue Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
944.0142 Charlemagne Fr
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Mililani Public Library
Adult Biography
B Charlemagne Fr
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Wahiawa Public Library
Adult Biography
B Charlemagne Fr
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9884
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.