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If Alfred, Charles the Bald, and others, defy posterity's condescension, they also demand historical contextualisation. That Airlie, by way of 'supplement', offers his own suggestions as to how this can be done strikes me as the nicest sort of compliment, for he is one of the shrewdest and most sensitive of a younger generation of commentators on the early medieval scene.
Details. individual; royal/imperial; ruler; French; Male. Life dates. 823-877. Biography. Carolingian ruler of France. Son of Louis the Pious and his second wife Judith of Bavaria. King of France from 840, and succeeded Holy Roman Emperor Louis II, son of his brother Lothair I, after the latter's death in 875. 142 related objects.
Jan 1, 1980 · A King Praises Himself: The Letters of Charles the Bald to Pope Hadrian II Bearing Witness: Ruth Harrison and British Farm Animal Welfare (1920–2000) , by Claas Kirchhelle The Funeral Achievements of Henry V at Westminster Abbey: The Arms and Armour of Death , ed. Anne Curry and Susan Jenkins
Charles the Bald was a 9th-century king of West Francia, king of Italy and emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. After a series of civil wars during the reign of his father, Louis the Pious, Charles succeeded, by the Treaty of Verdun, in acquiring the western third of the Holy Roman Empire. He was a grandson of Charlemagne and the youngest son of ...
The Ruler Portrait of Charles the Bald in the S. Paolo Bible. WilliamJ. Diebold. The S. Paolo Bible (Rome, Abbazia di S. Paolo fuori le Mura), foliation indicates that in the later Middle Ages the miniature made in Reims between ca. 866 and ca. 875, includes an was the verso of the manuscript's last leaf.2 This was probably image of Charles the ...
Charles II (823–77) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) Charles II (‘the Bald’), emperor and king of France (823–77) in The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages ; Charles the Bald (823–877) in Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages ; View overview page for this topic
Description. This important and long-awaited study is the first full-scale biography of Charlemagne's grandson, King of the West Franks from 843 to 877, and Emperor from 875. Posterity has not been kind to Charles or his age, seeing him as a fatally weak ruler in decadent times, threatened by Viking invaders and overmighty subjects. Janet ...
