Essay Question #2 Melanie A Morway October 6, 2016
The way that our text book describes Charlemagne and the way that the selection from Einhard describes Charlemagne are different in several ways, yet there are some similarities. Our text book describes him as a man that was instrumental in implementing the practices of a Feudal society in Europe. “Perhaps the most important ruler to codify and adopt these practice was Charlemagne, who dreamed not only of unifying Europe under his rule, but also unifying Church and state in a single administrative and political bureaucracy”(Sayre, pg 82). Our text book goes on the discuss Charlemagne’s accomplishments. Einhard’s writing takes a more personal turn, and describes not only his personal and private life, but also describes his looks. …show more content…
Our text book says that he used prayer to keep the sun from setting to allow for the defeat of the the Muslims. “Charlemagne’s prayers keeps the sun from setting, allowing his army to defeat the Saracens” (Sayre, pg 92). According to Einhard, Charlemagne was of no morals, not living a Christian life. He allows his unmarried daughters to have lovers, and he himself had a son with one of his concubines.
Some of things that the reading from Einhard and our text did agree on was that Charlemagne did promote literacy and education. Not only did he have the monks transcribe manuscripts, he promoted education, and his court has been credited with the accomplishment of developing a new kind of writing script. One that was very different from he Roman script that used all capital letters. This new style of writing was called Carolingian minuscule which included lowercase letters and punctuation. Einhard’s described Charlemagne as a man who had the gift of fluent speech and he was a man who liked to
The way that our text book describes Charlemagne and the way that the selection from Einhard describes Charlemagne are different in several ways, yet there are some similarities. Our text book describes him as a man that was instrumental in implementing the practices of a Feudal society in Europe. “Perhaps the most important ruler to codify and adopt these practice was Charlemagne, who dreamed not only of unifying Europe under his rule, but also unifying Church and state in a single administrative and political bureaucracy”(Sayre, pg 82). Our text book goes on the discuss Charlemagne’s accomplishments. Einhard’s writing takes a more personal turn, and describes not only his personal and private life, but also describes his looks. …show more content…
Our text book says that he used prayer to keep the sun from setting to allow for the defeat of the the Muslims. “Charlemagne’s prayers keeps the sun from setting, allowing his army to defeat the Saracens” (Sayre, pg 92). According to Einhard, Charlemagne was of no morals, not living a Christian life. He allows his unmarried daughters to have lovers, and he himself had a son with one of his concubines.
Some of things that the reading from Einhard and our text did agree on was that Charlemagne did promote literacy and education. Not only did he have the monks transcribe manuscripts, he promoted education, and his court has been credited with the accomplishment of developing a new kind of writing script. One that was very different from he Roman script that used all capital letters. This new style of writing was called Carolingian minuscule which included lowercase letters and punctuation. Einhard’s described Charlemagne as a man who had the gift of fluent speech and he was a man who liked to