Outlines of the world's history, ancient, mediæval, and modern, with special relation to the history of civilization and the progress of mankind .. . 234 MEDIEVAL HISTORY. (.wt CHAPTER III EMPIRE OF 57. An interesting chapter in the history of the MiddleSubject treated Ages is now before us. We are to see how°^- the ruins of the dilapidated Western Empirewere for a time rebuilt intoan imposing structure by thegenius of a great man, thegrandest figure of the MiddleAges, — Charlemagne. 58. Charlemagne was the Charlemagnes SOn of Pepin, the ?•^h- first of the Carlo- vingian monarchs
Outlines of the world's history, ancient, mediæval, and modern, with special relation to the history of civilization and the progress of mankind .. . 234 MEDIEVAL HISTORY. (.wt CHAPTER III EMPIRE OF 57. An interesting chapter in the history of the MiddleSubject treated Ages is now before us. We are to see how°^- the ruins of the dilapidated Western Empirewere for a time rebuilt intoan imposing structure by thegenius of a great man, thegrandest figure of the MiddleAges, — Charlemagne. 58. Charlemagne was the Charlemagnes SOn of Pepin, the ?•^h- first of the Carlo- vingian monarchs, — that Pe-pin who shut up the imbecilepuppet-king of the Merovin-gian line and assumed the sovereignty of the Franks. Hewas born about a. d. 742. The real name of this greatman was Karl, that is, Charles. Though best known by hisFrench name of Charlemagne (Charles the Great), we mustremember that he was no Frenchman in our sense of theterm, but a thorough Teuton in birth, instinct, speech, andresidence. 59. The kingdom of the Franks, to which CharlemagnePrankish king- ^^ ^^^^ ^^^ the death of his father, formed an^°- extensive dominion comprising portions of thetwo countries we now call France
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