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'King and Emperor: A New Life of Charlemagne' takes on the compelling
suspense of good detective work as well as good history. . . . Janet L.
Nelson comes as close as one can to approaching this extraordinary
man.' -- Patrick J. Geary,, Wall Street Journal'...[Janet Nelson]
assembles an astonishingly rich picture from the most unrewarding of
texts. The way she puzzles out probable facts and motivations, based on
a complete reading of the existing texts, is a joy to witness. She draws
on and shows off the clever work of earlier historians, while giving
short shrift to their more biased assumptions. The narrative voice
emerges as that of a patient, inquisitive, incisive and helpful master
detective, with funny asides, a beautiful style and sensible politics.',
Times Literary Supplement'In crafting her new biography of the
tremendous king, the British historian Janet L. Nelson has trawled welltraveled
waterways and obscure rivulets alike to fish out the historical
figure as he acted and thought.', The New Criterion“Janet Nelson has
succeeded in delivering “a new life― of Charles. Her long-awaited
biography invites us to understand the man in ways that are original and
penetrating.―, Financial Times'In her impressive new biography, Janet L
Nelson meticulously sifts all the available evidence [on Charlemagne].
At the start she notes (a little terrifyingly) that some 7,000 charters
survive from his reign. You can believe she has looked at every single
one, so thorough and expansive is this work of scholarship. . . .Nelson
uses literary sources adroitly, supplementing more prosaic charter and
annalistic evidence with moving poetry.', Daily Telegraph“Nelson has
produced a remarkable, learned text, unlike any other study of
Charlemagne in recent years.―, Sunday Times“Experts. . . .will hail
this as a major work―, Sunday Telegraph“If Nelson expects a lot of
her readers, itâ€s because she has so much to offer. This is by any
measure a superb book. Charlemagne … has finally found an equally
great modern biographer.―, Literary Review“Helen Castorâ€s
endorsement – ‘a masterclass in the practice of history†– is
as good a description of this brilliant new biography as we are likely
to get―, Spectator 'This is a remarkable book: at once the dramatic
story of a truly extraordinary man and a masterclass in the practice of
history from a superlative historian. Janet Nelson's brilliant insight
illuminates a world that is both familiar and strange, and full of
resonances between past and present. Here—seen through challenging
sources, sifted and weighed with wisdom and wit—is everything we can

know, twelve centuries on, about the king and emperor called
Charlemagne.'—Helen Castor, author of She-Wolves and Joan of Arc 'An
imaginative, deeply thoughtful, often provocative, always important
book.'—Geoffrey Koziol, Professor of History at UC Berkeley See all
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