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| Tango01 | 24 Jun 2014 9:28 p.m. PST |
"What role did the Saxons have in Charlemagne's imperial coronation? The question was examined last month by Christopher Landon at the Canadian Society of Medievalists Annual Meeting. In his paper,'Charlemagne and the Saxons: Imperial Self-Representation in the Late Eighth Century', Langdon finds that the Carolingian leadership saw war with the Saxons as their opportunity to fashion their own imperial image. Prior to the second half of the eighth-century relations between the Carolingians (and the Merovingians before them) and the Saxons (a confederation of Germanic tribes in what is now northern Germany) were not overly hostile – Langdon notes that their was friendly interactions and that some Saxons were known to be Christians. However around 750 Carolingian writers began to portray the Saxons in very hostile terms, branding them both rebels and pagans. For example, Charlemagne's biographer Einhard writes:…"
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