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About 128 pages (38,510 words) in 8 products |
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Einhard | | Birth Date: |
c. 770 | | Death Date: |
840 | | Nationality: |
German | | Gender: |
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 Biography of Einhard
1,673 words, approx. 6 pages
 Lay abbot, politician (perhaps in spite of himself), occasional theologian, hagiographer, poet, historian, perhaps an artist and an architect, Einhard certainly earned his epitaph, the seven couplets in which Hrabanus Maurus described him as wise,... 
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Einhard Information
423 words, approx. 1 pages
 Einhard (also Eginhard or Einhart) (c. 775 – March 14, 840 in Seligenstadt, Germany) was a monk, Frankish historian and a dedicated servant of Charlemagne. He wrote a number works, the most famous of which was produced at the request of...
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 Investor's Business Daily Charlemagne's Main Direction
7/26/2007: 1,114 words, approx. 4 pagesCharlemagne believed in fair government for all.He ruled an empire called Francia that stretched larger than the boundaries of what today are France and Germany. Despite the great distances and difficulty in traveling, Charlemagne (742-814) gathered all his leaders for meetings every year.At these assemblies,...
 Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Paul Edward Dutton
14,851 words, approx. 50 pages
In the following excerpt, Dutton explores the characteristics of Einhard the man, not limited only to his writing of the Life of Charlemagne, and considers him as courtier, poet, theologian, and the author of Translation and Miracles.
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Critical Essay by Lewis Thorpe
8,155 words, approx. 27 pages
In the following excerpt, Thorpe examines the biographies of Charlemagne and Einhard and comments on the latter's reticence to write anything negative about his subject.
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Critical Essay by F. L. Ganshof
7,783 words, approx. 26 pages
In the following excerpt, originally published in French in 1951, Ganshof argues that the Life of Charlemagne is not only historically valuable but also interesting reading in its own right.
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