Becher, Matthias: Charlemagne.(Book Review)

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Becher, Matthias Charlemagne Trans. David S. Bachrach New Haven: Yale University Press 170 pp., $15.00, ISBN 0-300-10758-7 Publication Date: May 2005

Teachers looking for a book to illustrate the medieval period in a western civilization course, or to assign a biography in a survey of medieval history, need look no further than Charlemagne by Matthias Becher. David Bachrach's translation brings this excellent short study of Charlemagne by Becher, a professor of medieval history at the Universitat Bonn in Germany, to a welcoming English-reading audience.

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