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Einhard and Notker the Stammerer

Posthumous or imagined likeness of Charlemagne.
Posthumous or imagined likeness of Charlemagne. Source · Public domain
Two Lives of Charlemagne

Einhard and Notker the Stammerer

c. 830 / c. 885 · Medieval · Biography

Two Lives of Charlemagne pairs Einhard's Life of Charlemagne with Notker the Stammerer's later anecdotes about the emperor. Einhard writes as a court insider shaped by classical biography, especially Suetonius.

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