Einhard and the <i>Historia Augusta</i>
Justin Stover|George Woudhuysen
In recent years, a consensus has begun to develop that Einhard had read the Historia Augusta and he used it in his Vita Karoli magni. particular, scholars have argued must drawn rare word dicaculus from text. this article, we first review history of idea HA, then show how weakly grounded is. demonstrate is very unlikely text was source for dicaculus. We conclude with some thoughts on way might influence debate over HA Carolingian period.
The Journal of medieval Latin