Medieval History 101: The Unauthorized Version

Earlier this summer, I was invited to spend a day at the  Charlemagne Institute for Defending and Advancing Western Civilization talking with the  Alcuin Interns  on three major themes in medieval history. We talked about  Charlemagne ,  monasticism , and  the conquest of Constantinople in 1204 . Our texts were Einhard’s  Life of Charles , Jocelyn of Brakelond’s  Chronicle of the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds , and Geoffrey of Villehardouin’s  Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade . I also spoke about the website  for this course. Regular videos for Unauthorized.tv   return next week! Assigned texts Einhard and Notker the Stammerer,  Two Lives of Charlemagne , trans. Lewis Thorpe (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976); new edition, trans. David Ganz (London: Penguin, 2008) Jocelyn of Brakelond,  Chronicle of the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds , trans. Diana Greenway and Jane Sayers (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989) Joinville and Villehardouin,  Chronicles of the C

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