Charlemagne: Father of a Continent.(Brief article)(Book review)

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Charlemagne: Father of a Continent. By Alessandro Barbero. (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2004. Pp. 426. $29.95.)

Was Charlemagne the "father of Europe," as one of his court poets proclaimed, c. 800? This epithet has played a significant role in modern historiographical assessments of Charlemagne's achievement. Alessandro Barbero's new biography examines that achievement from the perspective of twenty-first-century Europe, which he believes has put aside the bitter divisions of nineteenth- and twentieth-century nationalism. From Barbero's perspective, ...

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