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The Life of Charlemagne (Charles the Great)

Chapter 22: Transcriber’s Notes
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About This Book

A chronological biography traces the life and reign of a great Frankish ruler from his family origins through ascent to imperial authority. The narrative opens with background on predecessors and the evolution of the mayoral office, then follows military campaigns, diplomatic exchanges, and internal revolts that shaped his rule. Chapters treat wars with neighboring peoples, efforts to convert pagan populations, the action at Roncesvalles, relations with the papacy and eastern courts, and his coronation as emperor. The work concludes with an account of his later years, an assessment of political results, and appendices discussing sources and providing genealogical tables.

Transcriber’s Notes

Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in the original book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced; some are noted in further detail below.

Page 71: “In the year 750 [it should be 751]” is in the original book; it is not a note from the Transcribers of this eBook.

Page 93: Missing ending quotation mark for text beginning with “The great distinction”. Transcriber added one after “sometimes assume.”

Page 115: “of so noble” was printed as “of so no noble”; changed here.

Page 202: “(791–842)” was printed as “(791–482)”; changed here.

Page 206: Unbalanced quotation mark in the paragraph beginning “He says:”

Page 269: “pre-eminence over them” was printed as “pre-eminence ever them”; changed here.

Page 329: “he gave the Teutonic race” was printed as “the gave te Teutonic race”; corrected by Transcriber.

Page 332: “Pippin of Landin” was printed as “Pippin of Landiu”; changed here, although modern conventional spelling is “Landen”.

The Genealogy charts in the Appendices are presented here as images and as text. Some eReaders will mis-align words and connecting lines in the text versions of those charts.