524. Charlemagne: Pagan Killer (Part 2)

1273.077 - 1295.02 Dominic Sandbrook

It's the only time it happens. So every other year there is military action. And it is taking place on all the various frontiers of Charlemagne's empire. So there's Spain. So we talked in the episode we did on the Battle of Tours and in the previous one about how the Frankish kings have been pushing, let's call them the Arabs, back from the Loire region. back beyond the Pyrenees.