Charlemagne, Johannes Fried
Charlemagne, Johannes Fried
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Charlemagne

Author: Johannes Fried, Peter Lewis

Narrator: James Cameron Stewart

Unabridged: 30 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/12/2017


Synopsis

When the legendary Frankish king and emperor Charlemagne died in 814 he left behind a dominion and a legacy unlike anything seen in Western Europe since the fall of Rome. Johannes Fried paints a compelling portrait of a devout ruler, a violent time, and a unified kingdom that deepens our understanding of the man often called the father of Europe.

About Johannes Fried

Johannes Fried is a German historian and medievalist.

Fried studied at the University of Heidelberg, where he obtained his doctorate in 1970 and his habilitation in 1977. He was professor at the University of Cologne 1980-1983 and holds the Chair of Medieval History at the University of Frankfurt am Main since 1983. He has been visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton 1995-1996.

Fried is a member of several learned societies and was president of the Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands (German Society of Historians) 1996-2000.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Grumpus

As a lover of history, I knew of Charlemagne, but I never really had any interest in him or gave him much thought until I learned from the TV series “Who Do You Think You Are?”, that he is Cindy Crawford’s 41st great-grandfather. As a dabbler in my own genealogy, I thought that was the coolest thing......more

Goodreads review by Erik

Well translated by Peter Lewis, Fried's 'Charlemagne' is a thorough, scholarly study of the Frankish monarch. As Fried notes, we know very little of the actual man, but what we do know of his doings and the contexts of their occurrences seems to be comprehensively reviewed in this tome, so much so t......more

Goodreads review by Andrew

charlemagne I was lucky enough to receive my copy early. The book is a bit of a mixed bag for me. With so little of the man concretely known as well as the events around him due to little of it being written and alot of it destroyed, the man can be hard to get a handle on and pinned down. With that......more