What Einhard meant to do for Charlemagne, Paul Dutton has done for Einhard, and more, Charlemagne's Courtier brings together a. .Series: Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures (Book 3). Paperback: 256 pages.

What Einhard meant to do for Charlemagne, Paul Dutton has done for Einhard, and more, Charlemagne's Courtier brings together a magnificent stock of images, allusions, and texts-virtually every early witness by or about Einhard-and invites us to reflect upon the greatness of Charlemagne's diminutive biographer. Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division (February 1, 1998).

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University of Toronto Press, 1 февр. Paul Edward Dutton, Professor of Humanities at Simon Fraser University, is the author of a number of articles and books about the Middle Ages including The Poetry and Paintings of the First Bible of Charles the Bald with Herbert L. Kessler (University of Michigan Press, 1997) and Charlemagne's Mustache and Other Cultural Clusters of a Dark Age (Palgrave, 2004).

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Charlemagne's Courtier: The Complete Einhard. Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures. In doing so, he follows in the footsteps of his earlier collection, Carolingian Civilization

Charlemagne's Courtier: The Complete Einhard. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 1998. In doing so, he follows in the footsteps of his earlier collection, Carolingian Civilization. Indeed, the idea for the current volume came whilst collecting, correcting and adapting the earlier translations of Einhard's Life of Charlemagne, his Translation of Saints Marcellinus and Peter, and his Letters, collected in the earlier volume. Dutton now offers wholesale retranslations of these three works, plus translations of a wide range of other material associated with Charlemagne's biographer.

But if Dutton’s collection problematizes by its diversity the culture that, for .

But if Dutton’s collection problematizes by its diversity the culture that, for Western civilization courses, Thorpe’s volume has long been used to typify, its wide range lacks the manage-ability of the latter. Students are left wondering, Who were all of these (un)interesting people writing these (un)interesting texts, and why were they writing them? -questions, Dutton claims, he himself raised

Nor is Einhard complete here, for how could one ever hope to squeeze into one small book all the scattered pieces produced and materials touched by someone as.

Nor is Einhard complete here, for how could one ever hope to squeeze into one small book all the scattered pieces produced and materials touched by someone as busy as Einhard once was. Still it would not be unfair to characterize Einhard's contact with Charles the Great as the defining experience of his life, and I have tried to include here all the works that have been assigned to him with confidence by scholars; and that has over the last century been a shrinking repository, since scholars no longer assign annals or passion poems to. his authorship.

Series: Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures. Book Description: "This is the first really complete Einhard. Einhard and Charlemagne have traveled through history together, at least as we have always imagined them, the little biographer and his towering subject. Necessary for beginners and helpful for scholars. Johannes Fried, University of Frankfurt. Their relationship has always struck observers, including Einhard himself, as that of a nurturing father and his adopted son. But it would do no harm for us to scratch a little at the varnish that lies thick and yellowing over this familiar portrait.