Charlemagne's Courtier: The Complete Einhard (Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures , Vol 3) - Softcover

Einhard

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ISBN 10: 1551111349 ISBN 13: 9781551111346

Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr Higher education, 1997

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Among the readings included are several existing letters by Emma (Einhard's wife), The Life of Charlemagne, and The History of His Relics. The latter work transports us into an almost unknown world as Einhard, the cool rationalist, arranges for a relic salesman, a veritable bone seller, to acquire saints? relics from Italy for installation into his new church. The reader is taken on an intrigue-filled trip to Rome, where Einhard's men creep into churches at night to steal bones and then spirit them away to Einhard in the north. The relics are received in town after town as if they were the living saints come to cure the infirm. Einhard's descriptions of the sick, the lame, and the blind of northern Europe vividly expose us to a side of medieval life too rarely encountered in other medieval sources.

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"Charlemagne's Courtier provides a wide audience the unique opportunity to study the complete oeuvre of a ninte-century aristocrat and intellectual." -- Patrick J. Geary, University of California at Los Angeles

"This is the first really complete Einhard...Necessary for beginners and helpful for scholars." -- Johannes Fried, University of Frankfurt

"What Einhard meant to do for Charlemagne, Paul Dutton has done for Einhard, and more!" -- Michael I. Allen, University of Chicago

From the Publisher:

Born of a desire for a richer, multi-layered approach to the social, political, religious, economic and intellectual history of the Middle Ages, Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures speaks in unique and relevant ways to a new generation. This broad-ranging series seeks to supply students and scholars with collections of translated primary sources, including many to which they would not normally have access. Documents in each reader are drawn from a wide variety of sources, and include less familiar materials on medieval women, peasants, and popular culture, as well as standard text central to the field.

Under the direction of Paul Edward Dutton, Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures features two types of basic sourcebooks - period and themamic readers.

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