Representations of Charlemagne

Tür:

Kitap Bölümü

Yayın yılı:

2008

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Cambridge University Press

Charlemagne, king of the Franks from 768 to 814, is one of the few major rulers in European history for whom there is an agreed stereotype. According to this he was a great warrior, and with his conquests he expanded his realm from a region smaller than France to include most of what we now know as western Europe. He promoted Christianity, education and learning. He was crowned emperor by the pope on Christmas Day 800, and provided thereby both the essential ideological potential for subsequent imperial ambitions among the medieval and early modern rulers of western Europe and a link between the ‘germanic’ and Roman political worlds. He was already hailed as the ‘father of Europe’ by a poet of his own day. Modern scholars in search of Europe's linguistic core have proposed a ‘Charlemagne Sprachbund’, for the area where French, German, Italian and Dutch are spoken. With the modern International Karlspreis / Prix International de Charlemagne for services to European peace and unity, first awarded in 1950, this Frankish ruler has also attained status as a symbol of European unity and integration. The prize itself was even awarded to the Euro in 2002.

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