i am. young charles s realm was huge his grandfather charles mateo and his father king pepin had expanded it greatly by waging constant wars in stretch from the ring to put on us from the mediterranean to the atlantic. in the eighteenth century in a realm without a fixed capital sends an email paris was an important center of this empire. charles came from an old ruling family his ancestors however managed to overthrow the merovingians the old franco spin a stick and make themselves room to us charles martel the grandfather founded
empire that was not roman. only a successor of st peter could award the title of emperor in the name of god that s why charlemagne had recognized the supremes pontiff as his virtual head. in return charlemagne liberated the papacy from by design time domination and placed it under its military protection. that s why the pope had to pay homage to the new emperor as his won t leave room. almost half a century after the pope s visit to sunday meet the political vision of the. carolingians had come true a lost in coalition between the worldly and the spiritual powers a union between the sword and the cross it was a long road and
chalices mind the tradition he and his court scholars introduced is not just a fundamental educational reform it amounts to the rebirth of the classical latin world. since the decline of rome in the chaos of the great migrations this ancient culture had with it the latin spoken by the months and priests was corrupted their writings were barely legible charlemagne sense that his unified empire needed one language and one script. sheet you see the has to be a clear order when writing clear rules everyone has to write the same so everyone can read it. as was and i will everyone must learn that including your. writing and copying a strict croft performed largely by monks in monasteries all of the knowledge of
reid akins about to zoom in seven eighty five was an incredible success for a child mine and called his chronicle is wrote that all of saxony was not subjugated but in reality it took almost twenty more years until that was the case basis ovide are positive nevertheless there were certain trees there was now a christian empire full of christians under a christian came out of course college to tend to. the oldest plants of the church in anger a village near how thought date back to around eight hundred we do kent was born here and this is where legend says he is buried the chroniclers have reinterpreted the rebel was a pious christian a later pope even beatified him. in the nationalist nineteenth century the saxon vidoe king was portrayed as
he wanted to combine the unparalleled luster of ancient rome with his own frankly sram one empire one faith one world. in seven hundred seventy four chalice becomes the rex crown court on edge along go bad all the king of the france and the lombok. the treasury of the cathedral in months are still holds the old crown for more than a thousand years into the nineteenth century it was worn by the many successes of shock. it is called the i am crown but it is made of pure gold and is a don t with twenty two precious gems it s reinforced on the inside by an iron ring