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Monthly Archives: October 2023

Recent addition to a Charlemagne bookshelf

Recent addition to a Charlemagne bookshelf: huge pedigree of all known descendants of Charlemagne through eight generations, roughly to the year 1000. This side, generations 1-5; other side, generations 6-8, so you need two copies if you want to display it! Published in 1967, with 79 pp. of dense and, for some lines, still-definitive annotation, […]

Anna Julia Cooper and the Pilgrimage of Charlemagne

Delighted to see a page about Anna Julia Cooper (1858-1964) in this month’s Perspectives on History (magazine of the American Historical Association, now very ably edited by a former student, Leland Grigoli). I cherished Dr. Cooper’s 1925 edition of the 12th-century chanson de geste “Le pèlerinage de Charlemagne” (“The Pilgrimage of Charlemagne”) for years before […]