524. Charlemagne: Pagan Killer (Part 2)

371.43 - 398.178 Dominic Sandbrook

It's just that he is more impressive and he has more resources to draw on. Therefore, he can behave in a way that hasn't been seen in Western Europe for a very long time. Peter Brown, the great historian of late antiquity, says of Charlemagne that he was not a warrior chieftain in a fragile, epic mode. He trod with the heavy tread of a dominus, so a Roman lord, a lord of Roman determination,