Alessandro Barbero's academic biography of Charlemagne, translated from the Italian, giving one of the fullest modern treatments of the thirty two year Saxon campaign from 772 to 804, including the destruction of the Irminsul, the Capitulatio de partibus Saxoniae and its death penalty for paganism, and the disputed death toll of the 782 Massacre of Verden, which the book surveys across the twentieth century historiography rather than repeating the chronicle figure uncritically.
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PublisherUniversity of California Press 1 Publication Year Assessment
Reliability TierA widely cited academic biography published by a major university press, translated into English from an established Italian medievalist's original, and the standard modern single-volume treatment of Charlemagne's reign including the Saxon campaign and its historiographical controversies. Cross-Tradition Connections
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