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

INTRODUCTION

*The two "Lives" contrasted.*--This volume contains two lives of Charles the Great, or Charlemagne (for both forms of the name will be used indifferently in this introduction); both written within a century after his death; both full of admiration for the hero of whom they treat; both written by ecclesiastics; but resembling one another in hardly any other par...