Join Marissa and Katie as they journey back to Rome on Christmas Day in the year 800 for one of the most famous coronations in European history. It’s a Christmas special, HistoryBuffs style!

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The life of Charlemagne in stained glass in the cathedral at Chartres. “Chartres – Vie de Charlemagne” |CC BY-SA 3.0 /Wikimedia Commons


Show Notes and Further Reading

Bones of an Emperor,” Medieval Histories, January 30, 2014.

Robert W. Dyson, “Medieval Rulers and Political Ideology” in Lansing, Carol, and Edward D. English. A Companion to the Medieval World. John Wiley & Sons, 2010.

Einhard’s “The Life of Charlemagne.”

Monica Fleener, “The Significance of the Coronation of Charlemagne“, December 22, 2010.

Richard E. Sullivan, ed. The Coronation of Charlemagne: What Did It Signify? Part of the Problems in European Civilization series. Boston: D.C. Heath and Co, 1959.

The Coronation of Charlemagne,” accessed via Seton Hall University.

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Charlemagne’s throne in the Cathedral at Aachen. |CC BY-SA 3.0 /Wikimedia Commons.


Choir music: Public domain choir recording Unus Ex Discipulis Meis found at the Free Music Archive.

Feature image: Claudius Jaquand, “Lors de l’ exposition Sacres Royaux, de Louis XIII à Charles”  |CC BY-SA 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons.

 journey back to Rome on Christmas Day in the year 800 for one of the most famous coronations in European history.


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