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That is the big enigma.
Yes, but you can’t really talk about ‘the secular’ in this period because Christianity is like a big umbrella that stands over every aspect of your life.
Yes. She interprets them, but the main characters in her book are all these bits and pieces of evidence through which we can get an idea about who Charlemagne was and why he is interesting.
For more than 30 years he was fighting the Saxons—although, as these books show, ‘the Saxons’ did not exist. It’s a wonderful book because she is a very rigorous scholar and she is not afraid to say that, although we used to think Charlemagne was a man with a plan and a vision, it turns out that he was just improvising as we all do in parts of our lives.
Is Flierman arguing that that collective identity was developed in the face of this aggression from Charlemagne, or that it was their conversion to Christianity that allowed the Saxons to develop a collective identity? Christianity, at the time, was more than what we would call a religion. So, if one doesn’t pay you enough, you simply go to the neighbours.
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History Hub presents a complete biography of Charlemagne from start to end, whose remarkable story inspires us even today
Charlemagne is dubbed as "Charles the Great" and considered as the Alexander the Great and the Julius Caesar of Christian Europe.
She tells us what we don’t know as well, and she tries to make the most of the bits and pieces we have. If you are the interviewee and would like to update your choice of books (or even just what you say about them) please email us at [email protected]
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It’s not a novel, nor is it only hardcore scholarship. She knows her stuff: every little scrap of information—be it archaeology, art history, history, or some strange manuscript in an obscure German monastery. He became ‘Charlemagne’ after his death. One of the great ironies of history, here, is that it was the Saxons—who had resisted incorporation into the Frankish Empire and who, to an extent, resisted Christianity—who became the most fanatically enthusiastic missionaries in Scandinavia.
This is before every knight builds his own castle. Charlemagne tried to prevent ‘territorialisation’. One of the blackest pages in his history is the conquest of Saxony. The first one is by Janet Nelson, King and Emperor: A New Life of Charlemagne.
Flierman comes from another direction altogether, because he’s interested in how Saxons became ‘the Saxons’.
I’m not going to choose because they should be read together.