The Rest Is History
523. Charlemagne: Return of the Kings (Part 1)
Tom Holland
at a place called Fulda on the east bank of the Rhine. And this monastery had a complete collection of Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars. And this included a biography of the greatest of all the Roman emperors, Augustus. And Einhardt read it. And so when he came to write his biography of Charlemagne, he modelled it on Suetonius' Life of Augustus. And this is very deliberate because
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