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E-book Rethinking Authority in the Carolingian Empire : Ideals and Expectations during the Reign of Louis the Pious (813-828)

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The year Louis the Pious was born – 778 – was the year Charlemagne had to acknowledge that his realm had become too big for one person to handle. With the Saxons stirring up trouble in the north-east, and the Basques having destroyed a sizable Carolingian army as it crossed the Pyrenees, Charlemagne set about organizing his realm and making sure it was in order.1 One of the most immediate results of this was the division of the Frankish realm among his three sons, a mere three years later in 781. This was meant to be a precur-sor to Charlemagne’s succession: the eldest, Charles the Younger, was taken under his father’s wing and groomed to inherit the Carolingian heartlands, if not the empire itself, whereas Pippin and his brother Louis became kings of the newly created sub-kingdoms of Italy and Aquitaine, respectively. For Aquitaine, situated in the south-west of Francia, this meant that Charlemagne appeased the locals who may have remained resentful about their conquest in 768, while he simultaneously ensured the defence of the area by having an entourage consisting of members of the Frankish elite accompany his son, aristocrats who were charged with keeping the new kingdom and its borders under control. For Louis, it meant that he remained in the long shadow of his father, although he was hardly ever able to benef it directly from his father’s tutelage. Louis, still only three years old, would have to fend for himself when it came to acquiring direct experience of the business of ruling, surrounded by his father’s courtiers as he gradually came into his own.

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997.1 KRA r

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Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press., 20019

Deskripsi Fisik

279 hlm

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English

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9789048532681

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997.1

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online resource

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History of Falkland Island

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