Two Lives of Charlemagne (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Einhard; Notker The Stammerer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140455051 ISBN 13: 9780140455052

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2008

Synopsis

Two revealingly different accounts of the life of the most important figure of the Roman Empire

Charlemage, known as the father of Europe, was one of the most powerful and dynamic of all medieval rulers. The biographies brought together here provide a rich and varied portrait of the king from two perspectives: that of Einhard, a close friend and adviser, and of Notker, a monastic scholar and musician writing fifty years after Charlemagne's death.

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About the Author

Einhard was born of noble parents in the Main valley around A.D. 770. He became a friend of Charlemagne and his family, and was chosen to invite Charlemagne to crown his son as his successor in 813. After Charlemagne’s death he was a loyal servant of Louis the Pious, and he died in 840.

Notker the Stammerer (A.D. 840-912), also called Notker I, Notker the Poet or Notker of Saint Gall, was a musician, author, poet, and Benedictine monk at the Abbey of Saint Gall in modern Switzerland.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140455051
• ISBN 13: 9780140455052
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160
• Editor: Ganz David