Carolingian Chronicles: Royal Frankish Annals and Nithard's Histories
by Bernhard Walter Scholz, Nithard, (Author), Barbara Rogers (Translator)
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The most comprehensive contemporaneous record of the rise and fall of the Carolingian EmpireTags
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- Canonical title
- Carolingian Chronicles: Royal Frankish Annals and Nithard's Histories
- Original publication date
- 0741-0829 -- RFA; 0842 - NH
- People/Characters
- Abd ar-Rahman II, emir of Cordova; Abul Abaz - Charlemagne's elephant; Elephant
- Important places
- Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany; Aix-la-Chapelle, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (Aachen)
- Epigraph
- None
- Dedication
- None
- First words
- The annals of the Carolingian court and Nithard's history of the wars among the sons of Louis the Pious tell the story of a century of Carolingian history (741-843). - Preface
One of the perennial obsessions of medieval authors was the suspicion that the past was superior to the present. - Introduction
Charles, mayor of the palace, died. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)I mention this because rapine and wrongs of every sort were rampant on all sides, and now the unseasonable weather killed the last hope of any good to come.
- Blurbers
- Llewelyn, P. A. B.; Hoffman, Richard C.; McGurk, P.
Classifications
- Genres
- History, Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 944.01 — History & geography History of Europe France and Monaco France Early history -987
- LCC
- DC70 .A2 .S3 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania France – Andorra – Monaco History of France History By period Early and medieval to 1515 476-1328. Merovingians. Carlovingians. Capetians
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- Languages
- English, Latin
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
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