Charlemagne’s Health in ‘Old Age’: Did It Affect Carolingian Military Strategy?
43 Seiten
Open Access
Journal:
Mediaevistik
Band 32
Ausgabe 1
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
pp. 11 - 53
Zusammenfassung
During the first thirty-three years of his reign as king of the Franks, i.e., prior to his coronation as emperor on Christmas day 800, Charlemagne, scholars generally agree, pursued a successful long-term offensive and expansionist strategy. This strategy was aimed at conquering large swaths of erstwhile imperial territory in the west and bringing under Carolingian rule a wide variety of peoples, who either themselves or their regional predecessors previously had not been subject to Frankish
Details
- Seiten
- 43
- DOI
- 10.3726/med.2019.01.01