SOURCE: Thorpe, Lewis. Introduction to Two Lives of Charlemagne, by Einhard and Notker the Stammerer, translated and edited by Lewis Thorpe, pp. 1-45. Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1969.
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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