HIST-102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 45: Insomnia, Dialectic, Einhard
10 Oct 2020
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To create a false document was perfectly acceptable, so long as it was done to promote a legitimate claim. Carolingian relations with the papacy grew even closer under pepin"s son and successor, Charles eventually known as charlemagne, or charles the great (768 814). To an extent, the carolingian rulers and the popes legitimated each other"s authority, and the resulting alliance helped to develop the idea of a superarching western christian state. Charlemagne, after busy decades of conquest and reform, came to be viewed as the leader of a new society, christendom. An important consequence of this new alliance and identity, though, was the effective estrangement of the western christian world from the eastern. A contemporary court scholar, einhard, has left a vivid portrait of the man. Patterning his life of charles after the imperial biographies of the roman writer suetonius,
