Reexamining Charlemagne through evidence from his own time, as a ruler of a recognizably European empire and...
Charlemagne
Charlemagne, portrait by Albrecht Dürer / Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Wikimedia Commons His was the first truly imperial power in...
The Coronation of Charlemagne, fresco by Raphael at the Apostolic Palace, c.1516 / Wikimedia Commons The problem...
The Coronation of Charlemagne, by Friedrich Kaulbach / Wikimedia Commons Today he is regarded as the founding...