... his lifetime, but he was also known to voice and act upon his major opinions. His world views included two values to which he devoted much of his life in developing: the importance of education, and the importance of a monotheistic devotion to G-d. These two values of Charlemagne's world view are exemplified through various actions he took during his lifetime, which, in turn, resulted in a high degree ... various edicts and laws, succeeded in its integration into daily life. Charlemagne died at Aechen, his capitol, in 814. He was succeeded by his son Louis, a well-intentioned but feeble...

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... was a man who so much excelled all others in wisdom and virtue that to everyone on earth he appeared both terrible and worthy of love and admiration- (Andrea 155). These words, written by Nithard, an illegitimate grandson of the emperor Charlemagne, expresses the nostalgic idealistic attitude towards the man that historians call the first true European king' and contemporaries the heir to the ... reign to understand fully how tenuous his hold on the empire truly was. "When Emperor Charles [. . .] died at a ripe old age [. . .] he left the whole of Europe flourishing- (Nithard 155). This...

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