Einhard Charlemagne Summary

Einhard starts out the biography of Charlemagne by discussing that it is important for him to write down Charlemagne’s feats. He talks about how it is important for these to be remembered because the deeds of Charlemagne. Einhard structures Life by discussing Charlemagne’s most important deeds first and then moving on to his personal life. I think this is all leading to the big purpose of Einhard’s Life. The whole purpose of the biography is to glorify Charlemagne beyond what he really was. Throughout this essay, I am going to describe a little bit about the plot and then show some examples about the glorification of Charlemagne. The biography starts with all of the conquests of Charlemagne. Charlemagne was a huge conqueror of countries that surrounded the Frankish Kingdom. I think that Einhard makes all the conquests important because it shows how big the Frankish Kingdom was in the grand scheme of the western world. Einhard uses the quote, “Have a Frank as a friend, not a neighbor.” I think that he uses this quote to show how strong the Frankish …show more content…
Einhard is quoted saying that, “but even overseas when he discovered that there were Christians living poverty.” I think that this quote is a little bit of a glorification of Charlemagne. Yes, Charlemagne was an avid Christian, but did he help every person in poverty he saw? Probably not. I think that this idea about Charlemagne could be true, but not in the way Einhard uses to make Charlemagne seem like this perfect man that he probably wasn’t. I think that this could be because they wanted people that were poor look up to the Frankish Kingdom. They wanted them to think that if they were poor and not inside the Kingdom (or even if they were), that the rule of the Charlemagne family was going to make sure that were going to take care of them because they are