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Cunctisque hoc signum, quid portenderet, ammirantibus, subito equus, quem sedebat, capite deorsum merso decidit eumque tam graviter ad terram elisit, ut, fibula sagi rupta balteoque gladii dissipato, a festinantibus qui aderant ministris exarmatus et sine amiculo levaretur.
Charlemagne gave Einhard charge of his great public buildings, e.g. the construction of Aachen cathedral and the palaces of Aachen and Ingelheim. Charlemagne also availed himself of Einhard's tact and prudence to send him on various diplomatic missions. The most important of Einhard's works is the Vita Caroli Magni. This, the best biography of ...
Scanned by Jerome S. Arkenberg, Cal. State Fullerton. The text may have been modernized by Prof. Arkenberg. This text is part of the Internet Medieval Source Book. The Sourcebook is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted texts related to medieval and Byzantine history. Unless otherwise indicated the specific electronic form of the ...
May 5, 2005 · The opening of Einhard's Life of Charlemagne is famous for its mocking description of Childeric III, last Merovingian king of the Franks. The passage has always appeared somewhat detached from the body of the work, and its purpose has long been something of a puzzle. Although the date at which the Life was written remains a matter of debate, it ...
Aristocrat educated in the monastery of Fulda and later a friend and adviser of Charlemagne. After Charlemagne's death in ad 814 he was made abbot of a series of religious houses. Between ad 829 and ad 836 he wrote his Life of Charlemagne, which remains the main source of much of what is known about the Frankish Empire. Einhard died in ad 840.
Apr 26, 2018 · Einhard latched onto Suetonius’ Lives of the Caesars, in particular, using the ancient series of biographies as a rubric for his own account of Charlemagne. When Einhard composed his Life of Charlemagne sometime between 817-827, he jolted life back into the genre of secular biographies. Despite criticism from contemporary saint biographers ...
Einhard nebo Eginhard ( 775? Maingau – 14. březen 840 Seligenstadt) byl franský kněz, řeholník a opat, učenec a spisovatel, významná postava karolinské renesance. Byl dvořanem Karla Velikého a Ludvíka Pobožného, přičemž o prvním z nich napsal z popudu toho druhého životopisné dílo Vita Karoli Magni, které je jedním z ...
