Charles the Bald
Janet L. Nelson
This important and long-awaited study is the first full-scale biography of Charlemagne's grandson, King West Franks from 843 to 877, Emperor 875. Posterity has not been kind Charles or his age, seeing him as a fatally weak ruler in decadent times, threatened by Viking invaders overmighty subjects. Janet Nelson, however, reveals an able resourceful who, under challenging conditions, maintained enhanced royal authority, held together kingdom that, outlasting Carolingians themselves, due course became France.
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