Charlemagne's Courtier: The Complete Einhard
Charlemagne's Courtier: The Complete Einhard (Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures , Vol 3)
Einhard, Paul Dutton, Paul Edward Dutton,
Publisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1551111349
Edition: Paperback; 1997-08-01
Summary:
Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures II Among the readings
included are several existing letters by Emma (Einhards wife), The
Life of Charlemagne, and The History of His Relics. The latter work
transports us into an almost unknown world as Einhard, the cool
rationalist, arranges for a relic salesman, a veritable bone seller,
to acquire saints relics from Italy for installation into his new
church. The reader is taken on an intrigue-filled trip to Rome, where
Einhards men creep into churches at night to steal bones and then
spirit them away to Einhard in the north. The relics are received in
town after town as if they were the living saints come to cure the
infirm. Einhards descriptions of the sick, the lame, and the blind
of northern Europe vividly expose us to a side of medieval life too
rarely encountered in other medieval sources.
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