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Obituary: Reinhard Furrer
; einhard Furrer, physicist and astronaut, died Berlin 9 September, aged 54. One of two Germans who flew with US space shuttle crew in 1985 on joint scientific mission directed by the German space agency Dara. Professor of Space Science, Free University of Berlin.
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Charlemagne's church at Aachen. (church and ritual in the Holy Roman Empire)
; ...power of a myth-history which has dominated European imaginations for well over a thousand years. It all started, according to Einhard who was a member of the court during the Aachen years, because Charles loved swimming: there were thermal springs and old Roman...
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Charlemagne's black stones: the re-use of Roman columns in early medieval Europe. (historical king)
; ...worked before the 19th century, and Charlemagne's biographer, Einhard the Frank, specifically states that he was unable to obtain...e.g. Firchow & Zeydel (1972: 95), for a translation of Einhard's Vita Karoli Magni). Charlemagne's columns Charlemagne seems...
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Charlemagne in Italy.
; ...died in 814. The most startling case is Einhard (c.775-840), an influential lay member...written between 829 and 836. Through it Einhard wanted to exalt the Charlemagne of great...appear that italian readers did not know Einhard's panegyric of Charlemagne and perhaps...
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The ideal of unity; Russell Chamberlin examines the origins and development of Europe's persistent vision of unity from the birth of the Holy Roman Empire to its fall.
; ...ctory'. The giant silver-haired Frank rose to his feet, towering above the slighter-built Latins and, according to his biographer, Einhard, protested --just a little too much, in the view of posterity. His counsellor, the Englishman Alcuin, who had wide contacts...
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History and Memory in the Carolingian World.(Book Review)
; ...Fredegar, the Royal Frankish Annals and its various continuations, the Liber historiae Francorum and the Liber pontificalis, Einhard's Life of Charlemagne and Paul the Deacon's Historia langobardorum. McKitterick examines particular manuscripts to see what...
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(book reviews)
; ...field. Chapter i is devoted to six case-studies, ranging from Einhard's Vita Caroli Magni to the Knecht und Magd of Hans Folz. These...few examples: he establishes three kinds of public realm in Einhard's Vita (pp. 50 ff.). He conversely points to different types...
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Spiritual progress in Carolingian Saxony: A case from ninth-century Corvey
; ...Writing sometime between 817 and 825/826, Einhard described Charlemagne's wars as thirty-thr...Charlemagne's actions in Saxony. (10) Einhard's remark about religion as a bond uniting...against the background formed by the events Einhard described and by the Translatio sacti...
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Southern, Richard W. History and Historians: Selected Papers of R. W. Southern.(Book Review)
; ...these occasions to explore aspects of the European tradition of historical writing, including the classical tradition from Einhard to Geoffrey of Monmouth, the idea of historical development in Hugh of St. Victor, history as prophecy--especially in Joachim...
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Roland redivivus.(Book Review)
; ...historical personage: we know that a certain Count Rotholandus was among the courtiers of Charlemagne in the year 772, and in Einhard's Vita Karoli the story of the death of Hruolandus is recounted for the first time. If nothing else, the ambuscade at Roncesvalles...
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