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Abbot Hilduin
Abd Al Rahman II
Author_Janet L. Nelson
Baptist's Nativity
Baptist’s Nativity
Carolingian dynasty
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Charles's Death
Charles's Kingdom
Charles's Reign
Charles’s Death
Charles’s Kingdom
Charles’s Reign
Emperor Louis II
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Faithful Man
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Frankish Heartlands
Frankish Kingdom
Frankish Realm
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Lothar II
Lothar's Kingdom
Lothar’s Kingdom
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Louis II
medieval European history
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Pippin II
political crisis management
Pope Hadrian II
Regnum Francorum
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Renovatio Monetae
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Vassi Dominici
Viking invasions
West Frankish monarchy studies
Western Neustria
William Son
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138157507
- Weight: 830g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 22 Dec 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 Nelson, however, reveals an able and resourceful ruler who, under challenging conditions, maintained and enhanced royal authority, and held together the kingdom that, outlasting the Carolingians themselves, in due course became France.
Janet L. Nelson
