HIST-102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 44: Alcuin, Marca Hispanica
10 Oct 2020
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From 768, when he became the frankish king, to his death in 814, he waged war on all of god"s, and his, enemies: the bretons, the lombards, the saxons, the danes, the. Frisians, the slavs, the avars, the spanish muslims. After consolidating his power on the throne, he began a series of campaigns against the. He attacked the lombards of italy when they again began to stir up trouble and vanquished them in 774. He incorporated their lands into his realm and began to use the title charles, king of the. It was roughly at this point that charlemagne conceived the notion of systematically unifying the christian west. This grand scheme meant more than mere conquest; a coherent campaign of political, social, religious, and intellectual reform had to accompany it: he began by trying to subjugate the entire saxon nation.
