{"title":"Johannes Fried","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohannes Fried\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a profound exploration of historical figures and eras, bringing to life the complexities of medieval Europe. His works, such as \u003cem\u003eCharlemagne\u003c\/em\u003e, provide nuanced insights into the political and cultural currents that shaped the Middle Ages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect meticulously researched narratives that blend biography and historical analysis, illuminating the interplay between individual lives and broader historical forces. 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He made his court in Aix-la-Chapelle the centre of a religious and intellectual renaissance, enlisting the Anglo-Saxon scholar Alcuin of York to be his personal tutor, and insisting that monks be literate and versed in rhetoric and logic. He erected a magnificent cathedral in his capital, decorating it lavishly while also dutifully attending Mass every morning and evening. And to an extent greater than any ruler before him, Charlemagne enhanced the papacy's influence, becoming the first king to enact the legal principle that the pope was beyond the reach of temporal justice—a decision with fateful consequences for European politics for centuries afterwards.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThough devout, Charlemagne was not saintly. He was a warrior-king, intimately familiar with violence and bloodshed. He enjoyed worldly pleasures, including physical love. 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Across the millennium from 500 to 1500, distinguished historian Johannes Fried describes a dynamic confluence of political, social, religious, economic, and scientific developments that draws a guiding thread through the era: the growth of a culture of reason.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFried's\u003c\/em\u003e breadth of knowledge is formidable and his passion for the period admirable. Those with a true passion for the Middle Ages will be thrilled by this ambitious \u003cem\u003edefensio\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e- Dan Jones, Sunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReads like a counterblast to the hot air of the liberal-humanist interpreters of European history. \u003cem\u003eFried\u003c\/em\u003e does justice both to the centrifugal fragmentation of the European region into monarchies, cities, republics, heresies, trade and craft associations, vernacular literatures, and to the persistence of unifying and homogenising forces: the papacy, the Western Empire, the schools, the friars, the civil lawyers, the bankers, the Crusades. Comprehensive coverage of the whole medieval continent in flux.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e- Eric Christiansen, New York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn absorbing book. \u003cem\u003eFried\u003c\/em\u003e covers much in the realm of ideas on monarchy, jurisprudence, arts, chivalry and courtly love, millenarianism and papal power, all of it a rewarding read.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e- Sean McGlynn, The Spectator\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48147891880172,"sku":"9780674975361","price":84.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780674975361-the-middle-ages.jpg?v=1786453087"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/johannes-fried.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}