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Early Lives of Charlemagne by Eginhard and the Monk of St Gall edited by Prof. A. J. Grant

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Two early medieval ecclesiastical biographies of a powerful ruler are brought together: a concise, first-hand account by a court insider that emphasizes factual, administrative, and personal details with a restrained style; and a later monastic narrative that blends devotional anecdotes, legendary episodes, and moralizing digressions. An introductory apparatus compares their approaches, assesses reliability, and situates the texts for readers, while edited notes and footnotes clarify language and variants. Together they offer complementary perspectives—one useful for corroborated historical detail, the other for the period's popular memory and mythmaking.

INDEX

[pg 177]

Aaron, King of Persia, [pg 28]_. See also Haroun.

Abodriti, [pg 23]_; reduced by Northmen, [pg 26]_.

Adalbert, [pg xxi]_.; [pg 104]_, [pg 106]_.

Adalgis, [pg 15]_.

Africans, envoys to Charles, [pg 121]_.

Aix, Charles’s palace at, [pg 38]_; cathedral at, [pg 42]_; buildings of, [pg 92]_.

Albinus. See Alcuin.

Alcuin of York, [pg xiii]_.; [pg 41]_, [pg 61]_; success of his pupils, [pg 71]_, [pg 72]_.

Aldefonsus of Gallæcia, [pg 28]_.

Aquitania, war in, [pg 13]_.

Aragis, Duke of Beneventum, [pg 21]_.

Ariosto, [pg xxiv]_.

Atto, [pg 157]_.

Avars, war against, [pg 24]_; seizure of their store, [pg 25]_, [pg 107]_; their rings, [pg 106]_.

Baugulfus, Abbot, [pg xii]_.

Bavarian war, [pg 22]_.

Beneventum, [pg 21]_.

Bertrada, mother of Charles, [pg 33]_.

Bishops, how appointed by Charles, [pg 64]_, [pg 66]_; luxury of, [pg 66]_; folly of, [pg 76]_; arrogance of, [pg 77]_; cleanliness rewarded, [pg 78]_; the bishop’s cheeses, [pg 79]_; pride rebuked, [pg 80]_; the adventure of the painted mouse, [pg 82]_; vanity reprimanded, [pg 83]_; preaching enjoined on, [pg 84]_; luxury of, [pg 86]_; churlishness in Greece, [pg 110]_.

Bobbio, monastery of, [pg 71]_.

Boniface, [pg xii]_.

Bretons, conquest of, [pg 20]_.

Carloman, brother of Pippin, [pg 10]_; retires to Monte Cassino, [pg 11]_.

Carloman, brother of Charles, [pg 11]_; dies, [pg 12]_.

Centumcellæ, [pg 31]_.

Chanting, Charles’s care for, [pg 72]_.

Charlemagne. See Charles the Great; the legend of his life, [pg xxiii]_.

Charles the Great, [pg xvii]_.; sole king, [pg 12]_; extent of his conquests, [pg 26]_; buildings, [pg 30]_; fleet, [pg 30]_; private life of, [pg 32]_, etc.; family of, [pg 33]_; treatment of his daughters, [pg 35]_; love of foreigners, [pg 37]_; personal appearance, [pg 37]_; dress, [pg 38]_; knowledge of Latin and Greek, [pg 41]_; fails to learn to write, [pg 41]_; reforms reading and singing, [pg 42]_; fondness for Rome, [pg 43]_; becomes Emperor, [pg 44]_, [pg 91]_; reforms the legal system of the Franks, [pg 44]_; changes the names of winds and months, [pg 45]_; death, [pg 47]_; burial, [pg 47]_ (see also [pg 169]_); will, [pg 50]_.

Charles, Martel, [pg 9]_.

Cicero, [pg 6]_.

[pg 178]

Clement the Scot, [pg 61]_, [pg 62]_.

Constantinople, Emperors of, [pg 29]_; embassy to, [pg 109]_; strange banqueting laws, [pg 111]_.

Dante, [pg xxiv]_.

Deacon “who followed the Italian custom,” strange death of, [pg 100]_.

Desiderius, King of the Lombards, [pg 12]_, [pg 15]_, [pg 22]_, [pg 144]_; alarm at the iron host of Charles, [pg 145]_.

Drogo, Bishop of Metz, [pg 75]_.

Eginhard, [pg xii]_.; career, [pg xiii]_.; writings, [pg xvi]_.; his life of Charlemagne, [pg xvi]_.; birth and education, [pg 1]_; motives for writing, [pg 4]_.

Eishere of Thurgau, [pg 136]_.

Eric, Duke of Friuli, [pg 25]_.

Fasting, Charles’s difficulty with, [pg 39]_, [pg 76]_.

Fastrada, wife of Charles, [pg 33]_; cruelty of, [pg 36]_.

Franks, national dress of, [pg 38]_, [pg 102]_.

Frisian garments, [pg 103]_.

Friuli, the Bishop of, [pg 148]_; hunting party at, [pg 149]_.

Gascons defeat Charles, [pg 19]_.

Gerold, Governor of Bavaria, [pg 25]_.

Godofrid the Dane, [pg 25]_; killed, [pg 26]_, [pg 48]_, [pg 137]_.

Gotefrid. See Godofrid.

Greek, knowledge of, [pg 41]_, [pg 75]_.

Greeks jealous of Charles, [pg 91]_; outwitted by Franks, [pg 111]_; envoys at Charles’s court, [pg 113]_; terror of, [pg 115]_; music of, [pg 115]_; envy of, [pg 141]_.

Grimald, Abbot of St Gall, [pg 71]_.

Hadrian, Pope, [pg 14]_, [pg 16]_; Charles’s sorrow at death of, [pg 35]_, [pg 39]_.

Haistulf, King of Lombards, [pg 14]_.

Haroun al Raschid, [pg 28]_; cedes the holy places to Charles, [pg 29]_, [pg 121]_; Charles’s presents to, [pg 122]_; praises Charles, [pg 123]_; gives the Holy Land to Charles, [pg 124]_.

Hartmuth, Abbot of St Gall, [pg 127]_.

Hasa, battle of, [pg 18]_.

Heitto, Bishop, [pg 114]_.

Hilderich the Merovingian, [pg 8]_, [pg 72]_.

Hildigard, [pg 32]_, [pg 64]_, [pg 77]_, [pg 82]_, [pg 119]_.

Holy places, the, given to Charles, [pg 29]_, [pg 124]_.

Hugo, Duke, [pg 112]_.

Hunold, [pg 13]_.

Huns, war against, [pg 24]_. See Avars.

Imperial title assumed by Charles, [pg 29]_, [pg 44]_, [pg 91]_.

Isambard, [pg 119]_, [pg 120]_.

Julian, [pg 105]_.

Kerold, [pg xxi]_.; [pg 108]_.

Leo, Pope, [pg 39]_; outrage upon, [pg 44]_, [pg 88]_, [pg 74]_.

Lewis of Bavaria, [pg 125]_, [pg 126]_; reprimands luxury, [pg 151]_.

Lewis the Pious, [pg 2]_; declared Emperor by Charles, [pg 46]_, [pg 56]_, [pg 126]_, [pg 128]_; his conversion of the Northmen, [pg 153]_, [pg 155]_; his care for the poor, [pg 156]_; his universal charity, [pg 156]_.

Liutfrid, the knavish steward, [pg 97]_. Liutgard, wife of Charles, [pg 33]_. Lombards, war with, [pg 14]_.

Lupus, Duke of the Gascons, [pg 13]_.

Mainz, the great bridge of, [pg 48]_, [pg 96]_.

Mayors of the Palace, [pg 8]_.

Merovingian kings, [pg 8]_.

Michael, Emperor of Constantinople, [pg 89]_.

Miracles, [pg 98]_, [pg 100]_, [pg 102]_, [pg 142]_.

[pg 179]

Monks, ignorance of, [pg 70]_.

Moors, precautions against, [pg 31]_.

Mulinheim, [pg xv]_.

Northmen, [pg 23]_, [pg 25]_; Charles’s measures against, [pg 30]_; rigorous punishment of, [pg 131]_; Charles’s prophesies concerning them, [pg 139]_; they send envoys to Lewis of Bavaria, [pg 152]_; accept conversion from Lewis the Pious, [pg 153]_; their deceit, [pg 154]_.

Organ, the Greek, [pg 116]_.

Osning, battle of, [pg 18]_.

Otker at Pavia, [pg 144]_, [pg 146]_.

Paris, Gaston, [pg xxiii]_.

Pavia, siege of, [pg 144]_, [pg 147]_, [pg 148]_.

Persians, envoys of, [pg 116]_; hunting party provided for them, [pg 118]_.

Peter of Pisa, [pg 41]_.

Pippin the younger, [pg 9]_; death, [pg 11]_; war against Lombards, [pg 14]_; legend of his march on Rome, [pg 140]_; slays a bull and a lion, [pg 141]_; his encounter with the devil, [pg 142]_.

Pippin, son of Charles, [pg 15]_; fights against Avars, [pg 24]_, [pg 32]_.

Pippin, Charles’s illegitimate son, conspires against him, [pg 36]_, [pg 132]_; sent to the monastery of St Gall, [pg 133]_; gives advice to Charles, [pg 134]_; moves to another monastery, [pg 135]_.

Pluralists, Charles’s dislike of, [pg 77]_.

Portents foretelling Charles’s death, [pg 48]_.

Prumia, monastery of, [pg 36]_.

Reading, how practised at Charles’s court, [pg 69]_.

Regensburg, Lewis’s buildings at, [pg 129]_.

Roland, Præfect of the Breton frontier, [pg 20]_.

Rome, Charles’s fondness for, [pg 43]_; Roman jealousy of the Franks, [pg 73]_.

St Augustine, [pg 40]_.

St Columban, [pg xx]_.

St Gall, [pg xx]_.

St Gall, Monk of, xix.; character of his narrative, [pg xxii]_.

St Gall, monastery of, [pg 75]_, [pg 127]_.

St Pancras, [pg 90]_ (and note).

St Peter of Ghent, [pg xv]_.

St Wandrille, [pg xv]_.

Saxons, war with, [pg 16]_, [pg 108]_; perfidy of, [pg 17]_; transplantation of, [pg 18]_; end of war, [pg 18]_; opinion of the Emperor of Constantinople, [pg 110]_.

Scotch and Charles, [pg 28]_; visit Frankland, [pg 59]_.

Slavs, war with, [pg 23]_.

Spain, expedition to, [pg 19]_.

Stephen, Pope, [pg 8]_, [pg 72]_.

Stracholf of St Gall, [pg 158]_.

Tancho, the bell-founder, [pg 94]_.

Tassilo, Duke of Bavaria, [pg 22]_.

Tours, [pg 61]_.

Waifar, Duke of Aquitania, [pg 11]_.

Walafrid, [pg 1]_.

Welatabi, [pg 23]_.

Werinbert, [pg xxi]_.; [pg 104]_.

Wilzi, [pg 23]_.

[pg 180]

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