Medieval History at the Charlemagne Institute

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.

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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 Crusades, trans. Caroline Smith (London: Penguin, 2008)

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