The Rest Is History
523. Charlemagne: Return of the Kings (Part 1)
Tom Holland
The beard, the carts. The long hair, particularly. Yeah. So the reges, criniti, the long-haired kings, this is what kind of defines them. But the thing is that by the time of Einhardt's writing, so he's doing that kind of, what, maybe 820, 830, these attributes are cast as kind of grotesque, as rustic, as embarrassing.
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