Audiobook30 hours
Charlemagne
Written by Johannes Fried
Narrated by James Cameron Stewart
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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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.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherTantor Media, Inc
TranslatorPeter Lewis
Release dateSep 12, 2017
ISBN9781541479029
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Good book. Great narrator. Not sure it's only 30 hours but the content that it gets into it was well worth the time.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is a dense, heavily researched biography of a figure for whom little is known, thus Fried's work is, in many respects, much more of an exploration into 8th and 9th century Europe than it is into the life of one man.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/52014 marked the 1200th anniversary of one of Europe's most famous, Charlemagne who died on 28th January 814 in Aachen after a tumultuous life. This huge biography carries the subtitle "Gewalt und Glaube" (Power/Violence and Faith). The emphasis of the book is on the second part. Charlemagne as a man of the church who created institutions and started Europe on the way to recovery from the breakdown of the Roman Empire and the Dark Ages. Apart from this churchy approach, the book suffers from its length. A good editor could easily have cut out two-hundred pages.