Go away and learn
J.L. Nelson: Charlemagne’s Superstate, 15 April 2004
Charlemagne
by Matthias Becher, translated by David Bachrach.
Yale, 170 pp., £16.95, September 2003,0 300 09796 4 Show More
by Matthias Becher, translated by David Bachrach.
Yale, 170 pp., £16.95, September 2003,
“... decollare in the annals, meaning ‘behead’, was a medieval typo for delocare, ‘relocate’. Matthias Becher’s ‘little book’ (Bändchen), as he modestly describes it, was published in Germany in 1999, in time to catch the 1200th anniversary of an even more celebrated event in Charles’s career: Christmas Day 800, when he was crowned emperor ... ”
