By encouraging arts, culture and education, the 8th-century Frankish king ... Europe was entering its fourth century of the "Dark Ages" when Charlemagne was born in A.D. 742, ...

She was best known for her major scholarly biography of the 8th-century Frankish king Charlemagne, King and Emperor, published in 2019, long after her formal retirement, which was chosen by both ...

Charlemagne (748–814) ruled a vast empire in the 8th century, uniting most of Western and Central Europe. He became a ...

Aachen - the city of Charlemagne. In the late 8th century, the Holy Roman emperor made Aachen his imperial residence and had the Palatine Chapel built there.

In the 8th century, King Charlemagne believed so strongly in the health benefits of flaxseed that he passed laws requiring his subjects to consume it. Now, thirteen centuries later, ...

Charlemagne (748 – 814) ruled over a huge empire in the 8th century, uniting most of Western and Central Europe, and was the first recognised emperor to rule from the west after the fall of the Roman ...

Charlemagne was temperate in eating, ... Even though the 8th- and 9th-century Carolingians brewed beer with hops, it seems to have fallen severely out of fashion by the 12th century.

Charlemagne made the Frankish royal estate of Aachen, which had been serving a spa ever since the first century, his favourite abode. The main buildings of the Imperial Palace area were the Coronation ...

As legend has it, a sword from God given to Roland, an 8th century military leader under Charlemagne, was so powerful that Roland’s last mission was to destroy it.