An Empire of Memory: The Legend of Charlemagne, the Franks, and Jerusalem Before the First Crusade by Matthew Gabriele

An Empire of Memory: The Legend of Charlemagne, the Franks, and Jerusalem Before the First Crusade

Matthew Gabriele

202 pages • first pub 2011 (view editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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Beginning shortly after Charlemagne's death in 814, the inhabitants of his historical empire looked back upon his reign and saw in it an exemplar of Christian universality - Christendom. They mapped contemporary Christendom onto the past and so, d...

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