Fontenoy and after
John Gillingham
This chapter considers the moral choices made by men at war when they decided either to kill their enemies or spare them. It deals only with battles of Carolingian civil wars and subsequent struggles between Frankish/French princes - that is, who unquestionably shared a common culture. The battle Fontenoy, about which Janet Nelson has written often always illuminatingly, is far most famous these battles, best recorded. Two combatants, Nithard Angelbert, fighting on opposing sides, wrote it, one in remarkable prose history, other poem. figures not contemporary near-contemporary accounts annalists St Bertin, Fulda Xanten, but also two histories composed south Alps Andreas Bergamo Agnellus Ravenna.
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