524. Charlemagne: Pagan Killer (Part 2)

1726.974 - 1754.609 Dominic Sandbrook

Well, Roman and biblical. I mean, it's the fusing of the two great inspirations on the Carolingians. He's bringing it to bear on the Saxons. And it's a prosecution of total warfare on a scale that is so brutal that by the late 790s, Saxon resistance finally is over. starting to be broken. This is a victory of an order that the Romans in Germany never really succeeded in winning.