The talibans did not and will not negotiate with thé ottoman : the kabul's airport will be manned and controlled by the taliban and they did not held discussions with the ottomans : middleeasteye's claims have been debunked.
I'm a native French speaker and there's a traditional song for children where the lyrics are about Charlemagne inventing school. Gives you an idea of his contributions.
I suddenly remembered my Charlemagne - let my army be like the rocks and the trees and the birds in the sky. He never said it, but man what a movie scene !
Frankish, not french. His descendants became rulers over modern day France, Germany and Italy. The male line died out, but there female line is indeed in probably every western European
@@TemplarX2 not exactly read what the guy above me said, also when I said everyone I meant the people too not just kings, because of the bastards he fathered and his sons have bastards...etc
@@marcrolf7640 French kings. The Capetian Kings. The Franks basically became the Northern French, Belgian, some Dutch and Western Germans. Most Europeans were lowly peasants not nobles. It's a European case of "we wuz Kangz and shiat". No, you weren't. Your ancestors were oppressed dirty peasants that fled Europe to America. I'm a noble seriously. I descend from a Malagasy queen, Ranavalona I. My great great Grandmother was the sister of Ranavalona III and married a Norman (from Normandy) corsair in exile. I literally have a legitimate claim over the entire Madagascar.
Brilliant and informative video.. Didn't realise how much he achieved Thought he was more of a conquerer but this video informed me otherwise!! Great work on the upgrade,quality ,and style of the videos recently historymarche
The only thing I dont like about Charlemagne was his conquests against the Danes and Norsemen. The Christianisation of the region may have been a matter necessity for his own people. But forcing free men and women to conform is always uncool to me. But in those days, I totally understand why. I have always considered these conquests as a major reason why the Viking age came about as it did. The Norse saw christianisation as a threat for good reason. And capitalized in revenge. Despite the fact it was solely for profit and glory. The Vikings certainly wanted to get some just-deserts for more than 300 years of Christian expansion. Fascinating. It all happened for a reason, with purpose and had repercussions.
So Pagans and later Vikings (Norsemen) can raid other places, but when Christians fight and win against Pagans, then it is bad? P.S.: Northern pagans raided places well before Charlemagne.
@@AshMcFarlane I think he's just making a joke especially considering he can't seem to spell. As to your question unfortunately I seem to recall someone saying it was discontinued but i'm not sure why or how accurate that was so don't quote me on it.
My lord if you may i have a suggestion I really believe you should always make the picture of the video about the battle and the squares with the pointy arrows they attend to draw the most views I mistook your video with another channel as a TH-cam addict people stopped reading titles now a days the picture is your title thats why i was 2 weeks late my apologies
Correction: Charlemagne was crowned by the Pope “Emperor of the Romans”. The Eastern Roman Empire refused to acknowledge any Roman legitimacy but desperate Emperors acknowledged him as “Emperor of the Franks” in the West. The Holy Roman Emperor was a title applied much later in the piece but lacks legitimacy so the Charlemagne is cited as the origin and also an example of greatness. The primary reason this link was made on the Papacy’s side was it marks the moment where the church could make kings and soon they would be able to dictate armies (Crusades). As for the HRE title, it became an Italian title handballed as a reward for helping the Pope but they Church would success fully pressure The Empire (what they actually called the union of states) into requiring the divine approval of the Papacy for imperial legitimacy and the would eventually become the more famous incarnation of the HRE that first comes to people’s minds today.
@@rockstar450 Yes, but he actually stopped using that title for himself, perhaps in order to not provoke Byzantium, but even though the title Holy Roman Emperor was not yet used, the history of the HRE begins with Charlemagnes coronation in 800.
@@Matthew_080 Not wholy. Byzantine administrstive systems were far more close to the erlier Hellenistic kingdoms (Constantinople was divided in Demes each with a Demarch like ancient Athens). But the wholy Roman Empire actually shared far more similarities with their Roman blood (language, administration, the church and all the empires culture was a mixture of Roman and Germanic traditions)
@@KiranSingh-zr8jr Cringe, If you actually bothered to learn about either Empires you would know that’s not possible, let alone the fact Irene was too old to have kids.
@@boss180888 i dont think he had any correlation to the roman nobility since the pope gave him the title of patrician after the war with the lombards, which means he didnt have it
When you take into consideration the fact that most sources say he tried to learn to read and never mastered it but really believed in it for his subjects it makes him even cooler. I'm also hearing Monty Python vibes in WHAT DID CHARLEMAGNE EVER DO FOR US 🤣
Sadly, Charlemagne did all that but didn't rush primogeniture like he should have. Luckily he only had one surviving son when he died, so the empire lasted a bit longer, but that Gavelkind succession got the Franks in the end.
I love how you guys can talk about all those things that get overlooked by a purely militaristic aproach to history. Administration and cultire as just as amazing as any battle 🔥
It's quite unfathomable that, at the end of the day, all of this was accomplished by a an illiterate who despite living more than a thousand years ago would've been tall enough to play in the NBA and had nearly lost his empire in Iberia before he had a chance to found it. A true cult of personality. No wonder the aristocracy became known as 'Königsnähe' - 'Close to the King'
@@MohamedRamadan-qi4hl I believe he meant that Charlemagne was big even compared to most modern people with access to proper nutrition. People in the NBA are taller than the average person.
How ironic to have attended H.S. and College in the U.S. and to be completely ignorant about Charlemagne......especially just now learning about how he instituted the encouragement to learn.
To be fair, no history class is properly comprehensive. Going to school in England, history of the Tudors was the Battle of Bosworth Field, Henry VIII and Elizabeth I - it's only later that you find out about things like Tyrone's Rebellion and the Irish Famine.
@@Zombiewithabowtie Interesting, thank you. I have two books I started reading: 1. London A Hisory by Francis Sheppard; 2. Irish History, from prehistoric times to present day...by Seamas Mac Annaidh.
Give me the true Renaissance that reenlightened the West *Great Renaissance* "Not that one" *Renaissance of 12th century* "Sorry, not that one" *Islamic Golden Age* "Definetly not that one" *Ottonian Renaissance* "Almost, but no" *Carolingian Renaissance* "Perfection, thank the Lord for given us Charlemange"
It's a shame that the simple, clear calligraphy of the Carolingian era never became widespread after Charlemagne's time. It would've made reading later medieval manuscripts a lot easier. It's also interesting to see Charlemagne attempt to create a centralised government with a strong bureaucracy in what would become France. A task that wouldn't truly become fruitful till the age of Louis XIV in the later 17th century.
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@@kaushikraj4357 He's recovering well, but there's a long road ahead. I'd say it's 2 steps forward, 1 step backward. Minor issues keep coming up, which will continue for the next 6-12 months.
It worth noting that at the time illiteracy meant "lack of ability to read and write in Latin" specifically as opposed to not knowing to read and write at all. Most people were fairly capable in their native vernaculars, otherwise societies wouldn't really function.
@@gringologie9302 People could still read and write to do commerce, business and interact with one another. It's not like writing has one singular system given to us by the Gods of the universe. We invented and reinvented writing systems for an incredibly long time. Iirc, "A French national's proper French" is also considered to be one riddled with mistakes and vernacular stylings as opposed to perfect French. That really applies to every language really. So to speak of course. You can tell a native of the language by their vulgar use of it as opposed to a non native who tries to have it as perfect as possible. There are common "wrong" stylings that are pretty much uniform in French.
I'm glad that you mentioned and showed the Carolingian minuscule at 4:50. One can see that it greatly influenced the modern look of the Latin script. It happened partially because the Renaissance scholars mistook copies of ancient works written in it for the originals. "When they handled manuscript books copied by eleventh- and twelfth-century scribes, Quattrocento literati [meaning the learned Italians of the 15th century] thought they were looking at texts that came right out of the bookshops of ancient Rome". Elizabeth Eisenstein, The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe, 2nd ed. (Cambridge University Press) 2006, p. 134. Carolingian minuscule also simply was more practical, as easier to read, and judged to be more aesthetically pleasing than the 'Gothic' script. It ironically reinforced the notion of the men of the Renaissance that everything between the fall of the Western Rome and them was backwards and barbaric, a notion that warps the understanding of the medieval period for most people to this day.
This reformation did not only impact mainland Europe, it triggered the reformation in the northern Anglo Saxon kingdom of Northumbria,the growth on the school in York, then them sending conversion monks/priests to old Germania
You have to love the standards of the time: here he's portrayed as being almost controversially well educated for his knowledge of... arithmetic and possibly basic literacy.
I think it was more for his administrative skills and his understanding of how an effective society should be run. His intelligence probably far exceeded his education.
My last term paper before my bachelor thesis was on Alcuin's influence on the Educational Reforms. It was quite interesting. Also that Alcuin often had some beef with some of the other advisers and scholars, since obviously they were all vying for more influnce and recognition by Charlemagne.
@@Snoopseumdi I mostly used German literature, but two English texts I used were: Airlie, Stuart, Power and its problems in Carolingian Europe (Variorum collected studies 1010), Farnham 2012. Airlie, Stuart, The Palace of Memory. The Carolingian court as a political centre, in: Courts and Regions in Medieval Europe, by Sarah R. Jones, Woodbridge 2000, S. 1-21.
His octagonal Byzantine style throne room in Aachen cathedral is just absolutely stunning. I wish there was more of that architecture in Western Europe.
Charlemagne sent Harun Spanish horses, colorful Frisian cloaks and impressive hunting dogs. In 802 Harun sent Charlemagne a present consisting of silks, brass candelabra, perfume, balsam, ivory chessmen, a colossal tent with many-colored curtains, 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗽𝗵𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗱 𝗔𝗯𝘂𝗹-𝗔𝗯𝗯𝗮𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀 𝗯𝘆 𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘇𝗲 𝗯𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗮 𝗯𝗼𝘄𝗹, 𝗮𝘀 𝗺𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗸𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀-𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗿-𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝘀𝗵𝘂𝘁 𝗯𝗲𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺. The presents were unprecedented in Western Europe and may have influenced Carolingian art
The use of all these superlative adjectives to describe the man is probably better than what he could have managed himself. This video has a few useful tidbits, but it's almost a propaganda reel. The Capitula de Iudaeis is of disputed authenticity and, yes, is hostile to Jews. Just read it! Charlemagne was the first man in history to force an entire nation to convert to Christianity or face death (Old Saxons, 785). This makes him sound like an enlightened savant. He was more of a proto-Crusader. "Learning" meant empowering the clergy to persecute the ancient wisdom of countless ancient peoples. Always consider the source. Every contemporary who lauds his influence on learning had a personal interest in elevating the prestige of both church and court. Apart from its influence on writing and bookmaking, the entire concept is overblown. This brief era was merely a spasm of post-Roman nostalgia, wrapped up in Teutonic expansionism, and called a "Renaissance".
I couldn't have said it better. Also, given how little information there is about Germany (more or less HRE borders) between the fall or Rome and up to 900AD, I wouldn't be surprised if walled towns did not exist outside Gaul. Moreover the various Germanic tribes did not seem to be organised in any kind of state (.e.g. Visigoths were still using a tribal system before the Muslims). The complete defeat of the Vandals in North Africa in a few months, in my opinion, goes to show the weakness of such tribes. If the vandals, which were much richer, better educated and better armed were defeated so quickly then why poorer, less educated, rural tribes would put more of a fight?
@@mabeScThe Visigothic kingdom was an elective monarchy, and Germanic tribes often adopted Roman legal systems.😒 The early Middle Ages were way more developed than most people think.
@@jbstarkiller4626 Yes, am aware of that, the Ostrogothic Kingdom also preserved a lot of Roman laws and functions. Would've been much better if the Ostrogoths simply acted as vassals and/or unite via marriage with the Imperial family in Constantinople. Both sides would have won, at least in hindsight.
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can we get a vid about otto? charlemagne was a great leader and did many great things, but would like to see more on the guy that made the hre really happen.
Never mentioned: On what all this was based. Without a superiour military Karl would have achieved nothing. WHAT precisely made the frankish militia superiour needs explaination.
Even though he actually reformed matters of warfare, state, and religion these reforms existed in the Roman era but were not carried out effectively due to heavy corruption and in the failed Foederati system. i think Charlemange is blown up because he was appointed emperor by the pope and the religious nature of that era. i mean the man was illiterate this should give you an insight.
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Interesting, and a nice refresher. But honestly this is not why I am watching these videos. I prefer the militaristic approach and the detailed battles. Might have to fast forward a bit on the next video to see if its worth my time.
More than battles, Charlemagne literally organized genocide in eastern part of his empire. Including actual Germany, burning their sacred tree etc etc... Prob about Charlemagne its difficult to select one particular battle as there is non more important than one other. Consequences of his reign are so huge and so various that it is more important to learn political history of this era than military one Btw, church choosed his family to make roman empire rize again. From this claim, you have a VERY important point that is going to write the next 1000years of history in western Europe.
Charlemagne (Qarleh, as Islamic sources call him) had diplomatic relations, correspondence and exchange of gifts with the Abbasid Caliph Harun al-Rashid.
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The talibans did not and will not negotiate with thé ottoman : the kabul's airport will be manned and controlled by the taliban and they did not held discussions with the ottomans : middleeasteye's claims have been debunked.
Great job with the video. Loved how informative it was.
Make video about qodisiya battle please
I'm a native French speaker and there's a traditional song for children where the lyrics are about Charlemagne inventing school. Gives you an idea of his contributions.
Agree, France Gall is old tradition.
I suddenly remembered my Charlemagne - let my army be like the rocks and the trees and the birds in the sky. He never said it, but man what a movie scene !
He didn't? Well now I'm questioning dr. Jones Sr.'s memory and scholar research.
Iconic scene. Then again, it's Sean.
I delivered the mail today. But this man delivered the history
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Loved part one and now I am sure I’m going to enjoy part two
The man who every European claim to be descended from .
Everyone is.
@@xergiok2322 Nope, only the French kings descended from him until they were wiped out.
Frankish, not french. His descendants became rulers over modern day France, Germany and Italy.
The male line died out, but there female line is indeed in probably every western European
@@TemplarX2 not exactly read what the guy above me said, also when I said everyone I meant the people too not just kings, because of the bastards he fathered and his sons have bastards...etc
@@marcrolf7640 French kings. The Capetian Kings. The Franks basically became the Northern French, Belgian, some Dutch and Western Germans. Most Europeans were lowly peasants not nobles. It's a European case of "we wuz Kangz and shiat". No, you weren't. Your ancestors were oppressed dirty peasants that fled Europe to America. I'm a noble seriously. I descend from a Malagasy queen, Ranavalona I. My great great Grandmother was the sister of Ranavalona III and married a Norman (from Normandy) corsair in exile. I literally have a legitimate claim over the entire Madagascar.
Loved the “subscribe as a sacrifice to the algorithm “
Brilliant and informative video..
Didn't realise how much he achieved
Thought he was more of a conquerer but this video informed me otherwise!!
Great work on the upgrade,quality ,and style of the videos recently historymarche
The only thing I dont like about Charlemagne was his conquests against the Danes and Norsemen. The Christianisation of the region may have been a matter necessity for his own people. But forcing free men and women to conform is always uncool to me. But in those days, I totally understand why. I have always considered these conquests as a major reason why the Viking age came about as it did. The Norse saw christianisation as a threat for good reason. And capitalized in revenge. Despite the fact it was solely for profit and glory. The Vikings certainly wanted to get some just-deserts for more than 300 years of Christian expansion. Fascinating. It all happened for a reason, with purpose and had repercussions.
Vikings became Christian though...
So Pagans and later Vikings (Norsemen) can raid other places, but when Christians fight and win against Pagans, then it is bad? P.S.: Northern pagans raided places well before Charlemagne.
Thanks to the court of Charlemagne for lower case letters. Otherwise we’d read everything as shouting
Arabik speakings, listen and learn!
@@anderstopansson and for the Hindu-Arabic number system which made mathematics much more accurate and understandable.
@@crazyviking24 I still don´t get how the roman legions conquered the world without the number 0.
@@anderstopansson that’s easy. They didn’t conquer the world
@@BoxStudioExecutive Easy 4 u.
ah I was really looking forward to another video of yours, thank you very much.
It's always a good day when HistoryMarche uploads
Alfred the Great next?
Thanks! Another great video. These are really too good for youtube!
My fav. History channel.
Can you do the Ottonian Renaissance next?
Europe needs him back so badly.
"Large Ooof"
If Pepin was short, and Charlamange was as tall as 6’4”, it begs the question - how tall was Mrs Pepin?!
Pepin wasn’t short his reign was
@@boss180888 he ruled for 17 years. It wasn't that short
@@johnnythemachine6949 yeah you're right
@@johnnythemachine6949 No, 27 years
@@jimsy7al his coronation was in 751 and he died in 768. It's 27 if you include his tenure as Mayor of the Palace
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You kept your promise 😆
@مكافح التنصير I'm happy with my religion.
Would be nice if you covered some of his battles
Yeah I’ve not see anything on his battles of which I’m sure there is many
Next Saturday :)
@@HistoryMarche that's what I'm talking about
@@HistoryMarche what about arabs battles ?
@@Gadanfer Will cover more Arab battles of course. I do all kinds of topics.
are we going to get more Hannibal?
@مكافح التنصير that a yes or a no
@@AshMcFarlane I think he's just making a joke especially considering he can't seem to spell. As to your question unfortunately I seem to recall someone saying it was discontinued but i'm not sure why or how accurate that was so don't quote me on it.
I love how in the thumbnail, a certain Peter of Pisa shows off too much skin. From his ankles and al the way teasing off his knees. The madlad.
Always love the vids
thanks for the spanish subtitles
Charlemagne: the man that was as capable as it gets, yet none of his heirs learned from his accomplishments
i was waiting for this video
Part 2 at last 😊
Great!
wait, what happened to Irene?
am happy
Do more on hannibal please
My lord if you may i have a suggestion I really believe you should always make the picture of the video about the battle and the squares with the pointy arrows they attend to draw the most views I mistook your video with another channel as a TH-cam addict people stopped reading titles now a days the picture is your title thats why i was 2 weeks late my apologies
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You should make a video about his contemporary and a very similar ruler Caliph Harun al-Rashid (786- 809).
hihi in those times in Europe are only two countries ,Holy roman empire and Bulgaria ?
There is no country at the time. Only Kingdoms. HRE isn't the name that Charlemagne took for his one btw.
With all he accomplished almost makes you wonder did he ever just take a weekend off and just relax? lol
This took decades to do
At minute 4:27 I wrote Andalusia, Spain! Why did you not write Cordoba or the Arabs?
Correction: Charlemagne was crowned by the Pope “Emperor of the Romans”. The Eastern Roman Empire refused to acknowledge any Roman legitimacy but desperate Emperors acknowledged him as “Emperor of the Franks” in the West. The Holy Roman Emperor was a title applied much later in the piece but lacks legitimacy so the Charlemagne is cited as the origin and also an example of greatness. The primary reason this link was made on the Papacy’s side was it marks the moment where the church could make kings and soon they would be able to dictate armies (Crusades). As for the HRE title, it became an Italian title handballed as a reward for helping the Pope but they Church would success fully pressure The Empire (what they actually called the union of states) into requiring the divine approval of the Papacy for imperial legitimacy and the would eventually become the more famous incarnation of the HRE that first comes to people’s minds today.
Nice video btw!!
@@rockstar450 Yes, but he actually stopped using that title for himself, perhaps in order to not provoke Byzantium, but even though the title Holy Roman Emperor was not yet used, the history of the HRE begins with Charlemagnes coronation in 800.
Charlemagne was recognized as Emperor of the Franks by Nikephoros not Emperor of the West.
@@tylerellis9097 that’s correct; it was 2am, I’ve edited haha. Oops and thanks!
But how it ends? It gave use both 3 nations instead of one...
Ah if only he married Irene and truly united the empire
Videos on how empires organised themselves internally are underrated.
Dear God change your photo...but I also agree lol
My professor had a similar reaction one time in an online meeting.
Charlemagne, the sequel to Rome we didn’t know we needed.
What if he married Irene? Neo-United Roman empire!
But the Roman Empire was then in the East...
@@Matthew_080 Not wholy. Byzantine administrstive systems were far more close to the erlier Hellenistic kingdoms (Constantinople was divided in Demes each with a Demarch like ancient Athens). But the wholy Roman Empire actually shared far more similarities with their Roman blood (language, administration, the church and all the empires culture was a mixture of Roman and Germanic traditions)
@@ΘΕΟΦΑΝΩΚΟΜΝΗΝΟΣ Germans: Kills the Romans
*Am I Roman now?*
@@KiranSingh-zr8jr Cringe, If you actually bothered to learn about either Empires you would know that’s not possible, let alone the fact Irene was too old to have kids.
Charlemagne: one of the few passable roman larpers in history
Well it is possible he was related to the roman senate nobility
@@boss180888 the Roman senate as a relevant institution, or it’s late decorative body?
@@alfredospautzgranemannjuni5864 not sure but the person concerned was i think arnulf of metz
@@boss180888 i dont think he had any correlation to the roman nobility since the pope gave him the title of patrician after the war with the lombards, which means he didnt have it
being possibly related to the Senate is nothing
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When you take into consideration the fact that most sources say he tried to learn to read and never mastered it but really believed in it for his subjects it makes him even cooler. I'm also hearing Monty Python vibes in WHAT DID CHARLEMAGNE EVER DO FOR US 🤣
Crucifications!
Sadly, Charlemagne did all that but didn't rush primogeniture like he should have. Luckily he only had one surviving son when he died, so the empire lasted a bit longer, but that Gavelkind succession got the Franks in the end.
True but he had a longer lasting Legacy through his Reforms, wars and policies. Dynasties die out but the Glory of Francia remains!
It got the Carolingians, not the Franks.
Potentially as tall as 6"4? Guess he is a giant of history in more than one way.
Sure was :)
Brother not only Charlemagne but also Skanderbeg is 6"4 Tall
@@kaushalraj2597700 years later...men was taller.
I love how you guys can talk about all those things that get overlooked by a purely militaristic aproach to history. Administration and cultire as just as amazing as any battle 🔥
Indeed I would say it more important.
Without battles won, no admin, no culture.
It's quite unfathomable that, at the end of the day, all of this was accomplished by a an illiterate who despite living more than a thousand years ago would've been tall enough to play in the NBA and had nearly lost his empire in Iberia before he had a chance to found it. A true cult of personality. No wonder the aristocracy became known as 'Königsnähe' - 'Close to the King'
What made people short in the past was lack of proper food nobels like Charlemagne would have the same height as modern people
@@MohamedRamadan-qi4hl I believe he meant that Charlemagne was big even compared to most modern people with access to proper nutrition. People in the NBA are taller than the average person.
Illiterate? Are you confusing him for Clovis? He was the son of Pepin and the grand son of Charles Martel
@@zachariastsampasidis8880 It says right there in the video he was trying to learn to read as an elderly man.
Yeah it's unfathomable because it's not true, just a king blown up by the religious fervor of the time and his relationship with the pope.
How ironic to have attended H.S. and College in the U.S. and to be completely ignorant about Charlemagne......especially just now learning about how he instituted the encouragement to learn.
To be fair, no history class is properly comprehensive. Going to school in England, history of the Tudors was the Battle of Bosworth Field, Henry VIII and Elizabeth I - it's only later that you find out about things like Tyrone's Rebellion and the Irish Famine.
@@Zombiewithabowtie Interesting, thank you. I have two books I started reading: 1. London A Hisory by Francis Sheppard; 2. Irish History, from prehistoric times to present day...by Seamas Mac Annaidh.
The American education system is horrible especially regarding history
Give me the true Renaissance that reenlightened the West
*Great Renaissance*
"Not that one"
*Renaissance of 12th century*
"Sorry, not that one"
*Islamic Golden Age*
"Definetly not that one"
*Ottonian Renaissance*
"Almost, but no"
*Carolingian Renaissance*
"Perfection, thank the Lord for given us Charlemange"
It's a shame that the simple, clear calligraphy of the Carolingian era never became widespread after Charlemagne's time. It would've made reading later medieval manuscripts a lot easier.
It's also interesting to see Charlemagne attempt to create a centralised government with a strong bureaucracy in what would become France. A task that wouldn't truly become fruitful till the age of Louis XIV in the later 17th century.
The funniest part is him creating such a unitary bureaucracy yet he also is credited for creating feudalism as we know it
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Shar-le-mane!? Don't you mean Charle-mag-knee!?!?
He just pronounce it by the french way (pretty correctly)
@@gringologie9302 And I'm making a joke
If only he reformed the succession system as well.
He done so much to centralize his power but forgot to change the the inheritance law. soon after the empire was split and split.
It worth noting that at the time illiteracy meant "lack of ability to read and write in Latin" specifically as opposed to not knowing to read and write at all.
Most people were fairly capable in their native vernaculars, otherwise societies wouldn't really function.
A lot of language were local and not written. France (alone) still found 80+ dialect today on her territory, less than 1/4 can be writen.
@@gringologie9302 People could still read and write to do commerce, business and interact with one another. It's not like writing has one singular system given to us by the Gods of the universe. We invented and reinvented writing systems for an incredibly long time.
Iirc, "A French national's proper French" is also considered to be one riddled with mistakes and vernacular stylings as opposed to perfect French. That really applies to every language really. So to speak of course. You can tell a native of the language by their vulgar use of it as opposed to a non native who tries to have it as perfect as possible. There are common "wrong" stylings that are pretty much uniform in French.
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Charlemagne killed them all hehe
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I'm glad that you mentioned and showed the Carolingian minuscule at 4:50. One can see that it greatly influenced the modern look of the Latin script. It happened partially because the Renaissance scholars mistook copies of ancient works written in it for the originals.
"When they handled manuscript books copied by eleventh- and twelfth-century scribes, Quattrocento literati [meaning the learned Italians of the 15th century] thought they were looking at texts that came right out of the bookshops of ancient Rome". Elizabeth Eisenstein, The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe, 2nd ed. (Cambridge University Press) 2006, p. 134.
Carolingian minuscule also simply was more practical, as easier to read, and judged to be more aesthetically pleasing than the 'Gothic' script. It ironically reinforced the notion of the men of the Renaissance that everything between the fall of the Western Rome and them was backwards and barbaric, a notion that warps the understanding of the medieval period for most people to this day.
This reformation did not only impact mainland Europe, it triggered the reformation in the northern Anglo Saxon kingdom of Northumbria,the growth on the school in York, then them sending conversion monks/priests to old Germania
No wonder some believe Charlemagne is made up, he did so many things it is almost too good to be true
You have to love the standards of the time: here he's portrayed as being almost controversially well educated for his knowledge of... arithmetic and possibly basic literacy.
I think it was more for his administrative skills and his understanding of how an effective society should be run. His intelligence probably far exceeded his education.
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Charlemagne was such a Chad!
My last term paper before my bachelor thesis was on Alcuin's influence on the Educational Reforms. It was quite interesting. Also that Alcuin often had some beef with some of the other advisers and scholars, since obviously they were all vying for more influnce and recognition by Charlemagne.
Hello, maybe i’m a little late but do you have some books i can check on your subject?
@@Snoopseumdi I mostly used German literature, but two English texts I used were:
Airlie, Stuart, Power and its problems in Carolingian Europe (Variorum collected studies 1010), Farnham 2012.
Airlie, Stuart, The Palace of Memory. The Carolingian court as a political centre, in: Courts and Regions in Medieval Europe, by Sarah R. Jones, Woodbridge 2000, S. 1-21.
@@tremondial thanks a lot
His octagonal Byzantine style throne room in Aachen cathedral is just absolutely stunning. I wish there was more of that architecture in Western Europe.
Well at least he was made emperor by actual Romans instead of Greeks playing pretend
2:50 IS THIS WHY FRANCE SPEAKS FRENCH AND NOT FRANKISH!?! 5:40 DAMN, CHARLEMAGNE NEVER KNEW HOW TO READ!?!
Charlemagne sent Harun Spanish horses, colorful Frisian cloaks and impressive hunting dogs.
In 802 Harun sent Charlemagne a present consisting of silks, brass candelabra, perfume, balsam, ivory chessmen, a colossal tent with many-colored curtains, 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗽𝗵𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗱 𝗔𝗯𝘂𝗹-𝗔𝗯𝗯𝗮𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀 𝗯𝘆 𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘇𝗲 𝗯𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗮 𝗯𝗼𝘄𝗹, 𝗮𝘀 𝗺𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗸𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀-𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗿-𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝘀𝗵𝘂𝘁 𝗯𝗲𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺.
The presents were unprecedented in Western Europe and may have influenced Carolingian art
Vercingetorix, Clovis, Charlemagne, Jeanne d'Arc, Louis XIV, Napoléon .... France sound like a League of Legend party.
Zidane
@@herukuswara9233zidane is Algerian not French.
Very informative and worth running back a few times to absorb all the details.
Was waiting for this! Thanks HM
The use of all these superlative adjectives to describe the man is probably better than what he could have managed himself. This video has a few useful tidbits, but it's almost a propaganda reel. The Capitula de Iudaeis is of disputed authenticity and, yes, is hostile to Jews. Just read it! Charlemagne was the first man in history to force an entire nation to convert to Christianity or face death (Old Saxons, 785). This makes him sound like an enlightened savant. He was more of a proto-Crusader. "Learning" meant empowering the clergy to persecute the ancient wisdom of countless ancient peoples. Always consider the source. Every contemporary who lauds his influence on learning had a personal interest in elevating the prestige of both church and court. Apart from its influence on writing and bookmaking, the entire concept is overblown. This brief era was merely a spasm of post-Roman nostalgia, wrapped up in Teutonic expansionism, and called a "Renaissance".
I couldn't have said it better. Also, given how little information there is about Germany (more or less HRE borders) between the fall or Rome and up to 900AD, I wouldn't be surprised if walled towns did not exist outside Gaul. Moreover the various Germanic tribes did not seem to be organised in any kind of state (.e.g. Visigoths were still using a tribal system before the Muslims).
The complete defeat of the Vandals in North Africa in a few months, in my opinion, goes to show the weakness of such tribes. If the vandals, which were much richer, better educated and better armed were defeated so quickly then why poorer, less educated, rural tribes would put more of a fight?
@@mabeScThe Visigothic kingdom was an elective monarchy, and Germanic tribes often adopted Roman legal systems.😒 The early Middle Ages were way more developed than most people think.
@@jbstarkiller4626 Yes, am aware of that, the Ostrogothic Kingdom also preserved a lot of Roman laws and functions.
Would've been much better if the Ostrogoths simply acted as vassals and/or unite via marriage with the Imperial family in Constantinople. Both sides would have won, at least in hindsight.
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*King of the Franks Charlemagne United Western Europe
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can we get a vid about otto? charlemagne was a great leader and did many great things, but would like to see more on the guy that made the hre really happen.
Never mentioned: On what all this was based. Without a superiour military Karl would have achieved nothing. WHAT precisely made the frankish militia superiour needs explaination.
And then you discover his succession laws,oh...
7:27 its interesting that this happened several times in history.
There is a reason why this happened many times
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First of all, thank you, but too much poetry and glorification of Charles.
Even though he actually reformed matters of warfare, state, and religion these reforms existed in the Roman era but were not carried out effectively due to heavy corruption and in the failed Foederati system.
i think Charlemange is blown up because he was appointed emperor by the pope and the religious nature of that era. i mean the man was illiterate this should give you an insight.
And then when Charlemanes realm was at its peak came the cold wind from the north. As Viking raiders started to pour in from scandinavia.
Shame he didn't subjugate the danes like he did the Saxons and his son was more interested in religious affairs as opposed to military ones
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Interesting, and a nice refresher. But honestly this is not why I am watching these videos. I prefer the militaristic approach and the detailed battles. Might have to fast forward a bit on the next video to see if its worth my time.
More than battles, Charlemagne literally organized genocide in eastern part of his empire. Including actual Germany, burning their sacred tree etc etc... Prob about Charlemagne its difficult to select one particular battle as there is non more important than one other. Consequences of his reign are so huge and so various that it is more important to learn political history of this era than military one
Btw, church choosed his family to make roman empire rize again. From this claim, you have a VERY important point that is going to write the next 1000years of history in western Europe.
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Charlemagne (Qarleh, as Islamic sources call him) had diplomatic relations, correspondence and exchange of gifts with the Abbasid Caliph Harun al-Rashid.
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