Education is what a person gets from attending school, college or a university. An education is what you retain from classes you take at any given school. Charlemagne the Great was born in 742 AD to 813 AD. He and his brother both inherited what is now modern day France from their father Pepin. After the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 5th century, Rome went through a time of dark ages as everything was in chaos. Along from gaining most of France he also gained wealth and a strong military he used to go on the offensive on the Saxons in 772 AD. Before Charlemagne it was nearly impossible for anyone to get any sort of education. There was even a point in the middle ages that most individuals could not even tell apart from an “A” to a “B”.
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What Charlemagne was able to do is prepare new editions of religious texts and other texts that they found important. Reading every single text and deleting all the errors they found. Once the master copy was created it was reproduced in mass numbers to be spread amongst the population so the less valuable versions were destroyed. “Here [the monasteries], monks and nuns copied religious manuscripts, along with Classical text on medicine, drama, and other secular subjects” (Fiero 125). The key point to deduce from this quote is that Charlemagne mostly worked through religious individuals to achieve this great task of copying a book cover to cover. Still the preparation these individuals had to go through so they can prepare these books is still something that people wander to this day. It is said that during one year, 50,000 copies of the bible were copied. ” He likewise commands that the books which he has collected in his library in great numbers shall be sold for fair prices to such as want them, and the money received therefrom given to the poor”(Turner). Charlemagne also gave back to the less wealthy. He was an all-around great leader. These are just three aspects that Charlemagne took the role of while controlling the
What Charlemagne was able to do is prepare new editions of religious texts and other texts that they found important. Reading every single text and deleting all the errors they found. Once the master copy was created it was reproduced in mass numbers to be spread amongst the population so the less valuable versions were destroyed. “Here [the monasteries], monks and nuns copied religious manuscripts, along with Classical text on medicine, drama, and other secular subjects” (Fiero 125). The key point to deduce from this quote is that Charlemagne mostly worked through religious individuals to achieve this great task of copying a book cover to cover. Still the preparation these individuals had to go through so they can prepare these books is still something that people wander to this day. It is said that during one year, 50,000 copies of the bible were copied. ” He likewise commands that the books which he has collected in his library in great numbers shall be sold for fair prices to such as want them, and the money received therefrom given to the poor”(Turner). Charlemagne also gave back to the less wealthy. He was an all-around great leader. These are just three aspects that Charlemagne took the role of while controlling the