Contents: Kingdom of the Franks; House of the Arnulfing; Keys of St Peter; Making of a king; Golden city; The king in his kingdom; The general; Sowing of the seed; Consolidation; The emperor; Aachen - Rome of the north; Epilogue - Holy Roman Empire. Appendices: 'Oath of Strasbourg'; Karlspreis of Aachen.

Charlemagne

CHAMBERLIN, Russell

HarperCollins, Publishers

Great English Houses

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

No English landscape is complete without its parish church. From Norman tower to Gothic spire, from Cotswold stone to the half-timbered churches of Essex, this guide follows their development from the first churches built on pagan sites to their present decline. Each chapter looks at a different aspect; the people who used them, the communities that worshipped in them, the village parsons who preached in them and the tithe wars that were fought over them. Specially commissioned colour photographs illustrate the text and a comprehensive gazetteer provides details of hundreds of parish churches.

The English Parish Church

History

World

Hodder&Stoughton

Loot!: Heritage of Plunder in Modern Times

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The Idea of England

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Leaders & Notable People

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

Traces the life of the first emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, assesses his impact on European history, and explains why he was such an effective ruler

The Emperor: Charlemagne

Chamberlin, E.R.

Historical

Franklin Watts

The National Trust Book of the English Country Town

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

The Bad Popes

The Roman Catholic Church has been in existence for two millennia and this institutional longevity is all the more remarkable given that a number of its leaders were, frankly, bad.

Religion & Spirituality

Sutton Pub Ltd

The plundering of other people's treasures is older than civilisation and as new as the most recent war. The French, no mean practitioners in the art themselves, have labelled it elginisme after the much misjudged Lord Elgin.  Loot: The Heritage of Plunder examines the looting of major ancientcivilisations and of many Third Eorld nations. It ranges from the pillage of important archaeological sites in Greece and Egypt by conquerors, archaeologists and tourists to the fate of the Stone of Scone and other major symbols of nationhood , and the campaigns of epic looters such Napoleon and Hitler. The book also explores the differing attitudes through the ages - the understanding that 'might is right' or 'to the victor the spoils' is currently being challenged by the growing debate concerning the ethics of one nation retaining the historical treasures of another.  Russell Chamberlin's book is a lively and informative exploration of the passion for collecting and its effects on the course of history. It will appeal to everyone interested in the past and its preservation.

Loot: The Heritage of Plunder

Politics & Social Sciences

Anthropology

Sutton Publishing+ltd

Few men have exerted such a lasting influence on the course of Western history as Charlemagne (742-814). At the height of his power in the early ninth century Charlemagne, King of the Franks and Lombards and Emperor of the Romans, ruled all the Christian lands of western Europe except the British Isles and southern Italy and Sicily. 
Charismatic, gregarious, energetic and cultured, he initiated and encouraged a renaissance of learning and artistic enterprise that appeared to later generations as a Golden Age. An incomparable general, administrator and law-giver, he was as skilled on the battlefield as in the council chamber, and by sheer force of character held together an empire that rivalled the Byzantines in the East.
To the many portraits of the man who was crowned the first emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, Russell Chamberlin now adds a modern portrait which reveals the man behind the achievements. This book brings to life a key personality and a formative period in European history.

The Emperor Charlemagne

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