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    Charlemagne expanded the Frankish kingdom into a vast empire through conquest. As a devout Christian, he promoted learning and established a palace school led by Alcuin of York to educate clergy and officials. There, scholars imitated Roman styles of writing and preserved classical knowledge. In 800, Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne Emperor of the Romans, recognizing the new empire's blend of Germanic, Christian, and Roman influences that characterized the emerging medieval civilization.

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    CHARLEMAGNE’S

    EMPIRE
    CHAPTER 7 : THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES- MIDDLE CIVILIZATION
    DEVELOPS IN EUROPE
    A MAYOR OF THE PALACE
    BECOMES KING

     751- Pepin the Short, son of Charles Martel was given the
    title “King of the Franks” instead of “Mayor of the Palace”
     The Pope in Rome and the Frankish nobles approved the change.
     Establishing a custom for later rulers, the Pope crowned Pepin as
    king “ by the grace of God.”
     The Pope supported Pepin because he wanted the Franks to
    protect the Church from the Lombards.
    A MAYOR OF THE PALACE
    BECOMES KING

     Pepin invaded Italy, defeated the Lombards, and gave the Pope the
    territory between Rome and Ravenna, this became known as the
    Papal States.
    C H A R L E M AG NE P RO M O T E S L E A R N I N G
    A N D E X PA N D S H I S K I N G D O M .

     768 – Pepin’s son Charlemagne ( SHAR-luh- main) or


    Charles the Great became the King of the Franks.

     Charlemagne was an extraordinary figure in medieval history.

     He was described as six feet tall, “large and strong, and of soft
    stature” with a “stately and dignified” appearance, by the monk,
    Einhard.
    C H A R L E M AG NE P RO M O T E S L E A R N I N G
    A N D E X PA N D S H I S K I N G D O M

     Monk Einhard also described Charlemagne as someone who is


    devoted to his children: “ He was so careful of the training of his
    sons and daughters that he never took his meals without them when
    he was at home and never made a journey without them.”

     A devout Christian, Charlemagne had a beautiful church built at


    Aechen (AH-kun), his capital and attended services there regularly.
    C H A R L E M AG NE P RO M O T E S L E A R N I N G
    A N D E X PA N D S H I S K I N G D O M

     Einhard described how this warrior-king of the Franks was attracted


    to the cultures of ancient Greeks and Rome.
     Charlemagne was a master of Latin that he could speak it as well as his
    native tongue. He could understand Greek better than he could speak it.
    Alcuin who was the greatest scholar of the day was his teacher.
     The King spent much time and labor with him studying rhetorics,
    dialectics, and especially astronomy.
     He also tried to write but because he began late in life, his efforts met
    with ill success.
    C H A R L E M AG NE P RO M O T E S L E A R N I N G
    A N D E X PA N D S H I S K I N G D O M

     To improve the training of his officials and clergy. Charlemagne


    brought some of the finest scholars in Europe to his palace school.
     Directed by the English monk Alcuin, they collected books and read
    the works of ancient Roman authors.
     These scholars wrote poems, histories, and religious works, in which
    they imitated the style of the Roman literature.
     Charlemagne expanded his kingdom by conquering the Lombard
    kingdom in Italy and taking part of northern Spain from the Muslims.
    C H A R L E M AG NE P RO M O T E S L E A R N I N G
    A N D E X PA N D S H I S K I N G D O M

     He added Bavaria (in what is now Germany) to his kingdom and


    after terrible wars to forced the Germanic Saxons to submit to his
    rule and convert to Christianity.
    C A R L E M AG N E I S C ROW N E D A S
    E M P E RO R O F T H E RO M A N S

     Christmas day in the year of 800 – Pope Leo III crowned


    Charlemagne “ Emperor of the Romans”
     This indicated that the Roman idea of a strong centralized government
    had not died.
     Doubtless some believed Charlemagne was reviving the Roman
    Empire, however the empire did not have Roman law or political
    organization. Moreover, it had no great cities that could serve as centers of
    trade and learning.
    C H A R L E M AG N E I S C ROW N E D A S
    E M P E RO R O F T H E RO M A N S

     Charlemagne’s empire was the sign of something new. He was a


    German whose government grew out of Germanic customs.

     He was also a Christian who spread faith, protected the Church


    against its enemies, and was crowned emperor by the pope.

     Scholars in his kingdom preserved the learning of the Greco-


    Roman past. This blending of Germanic, Christian and Roman
    elements came to characterize the civilization of the Midlde Ages.

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