The true story of Byzantium's fall reveals a legacy betrayed by the West, misunderstood by the Left, and weaponised by the ...

Those 300 years just didn't happen. So all that history you learned about Charlemagne and the middle ages. Completely fabricated. In fact, the theory says that Charlemagne was specifically ...

The West Saxons may have promoted their version of the national story ... cumulative output … in the many millions of silver pennies’. Across the Channel, Charlemagne (who had probably never so much ...

Charlemagne and The Sopranos, Trump and I, Claudius – all owe a debt to the imperial biographies of Suetonius. By Tom Holland Some time in the early ninth century AD, a Frankish scholar named Einhard ...

Charlemagne and The Sopranos, Trump and I, Claudius – all owe a debt to the imperial biographies of Suetonius. By Tom Holland Some time in the early ninth century AD, a Frankish scholar named Einhard ...

This stands in stark contrast to some Christian missionaries, such as Charlemagne, who ‘converted’ the Saxons by slaughtering many and enslaving the survivors. Nonetheless, it is true that since the ...

Romans, Franks, Saxons, Britons and Celts were viewed equally. “The Church,” Father Slattery writes, “was Catholic, truly and universally open like a harbor.” To illustrate this point, he refers to a ...

A Medieval silk bag the size of a clenched fist is revealing previously little-known links between Westminster Abbey and Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor. The bag, which remains in the ...

In 936, however, a dynamic Saxon leader, Otto I, later to be called Otto the Great, was crowned king of the East Franks and Saxons. He considered himself the successor of Charlemagne and began to ...

The longest and most influential campaigns led by Charlemagne were the Saxons Wars, which stretched in some form or another for the better part of three decades. The rivalry between the Franks and ...