The importance of the emperor: Lothar I and the Frankish civil war, 840-843
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Lothar I's perspective on the Frankish civil war has not previously been explored. Close analysis of distribution and wording most significant body evidence produced by Lothar's circle, his charters, casts new light politics war. The imperial title questions legitimate inheritance emerge as factors crucial importance, which shape only self-presentation in but also Nithard's influential account war, negative portrayal Lothar.
Early Medieval Europe