Charlemagne
The Formation of a European Identity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9799752 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Charles West (0000-0001-9134-261X, University of Sheffield, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 124 |
| Issue | 508 |
| Pages | 670-672 |
| Publication date | 2009-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The English Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-8266 • E-ISSN: 1477-4534 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ehr/cep138 |
| OpenAlex | W1977291607 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
This is an important book. It is also a subtle, intricately constructed and challenging one, more difficult than it appears at first glance, demanding much from the reader but more than repaying the effort invested. Emphatically neither a biography nor a new textbook synthesis, it makes a complex argument about Charlemagne and his place in history, which, reflecting its bipartite title, can be understood as working on two levels. The most readily appreciable of these concerns the stripping away of assumptions which have accreted around the iconic Frank, by concentrating on those sources which, as McKitterick puts it, ‘have the merit of being contemporary’, with a secondary goal of restoring a sense of movement to Charlemagne's long reign (768–814), which has been too often considered in static terms. The intention is not to reconstruct Charlemagne's personality; it is to see how hard the sources may be worked, and where the limits of their interpretation lie. As a consequence of the emphasis on the strictly contemporary, this is an account of Charlemagne in which his most famous biographer, Einhard, is allotted only a subsidiary role
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Argument (complex analysis · Art · Art history · Biography · Epistemology · Identity (music · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Literature · Plan (archaeology · Political science · Reign · Sociology · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome · History · Law · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,27 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2022 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |