Charlemagne's Early Campaigns (768-777): A Diplomatic and Military AnalysisBRILL, 27. mar. 2013 - 744 sider Charlemagne's Early Campaigns is the first book-length study of Charlemagne at war and its focus on the period 768-777 makes clear that the topic, for his forty-six year reign, is immense. The neglect of Charlemagne's campaigns and the diplomacy that undergirded them has truncated our understanding of the creation of the Carolingian empire and the great success enjoyed by its leader, who ranks with Frederick the Great and Napoleon among Europe's best. The critical deployment here of the numerous narrative and documentary sources combined with the systematic use of the immense corpus of archaeological evidence, much of which the result of excavations undertaken since World War II, is applied here, in detail, for the first time in order to broaden our understanding of Charlemagne's military strategy and campaign tactics. Charlemagne and his advisers emerge as very careful planners, with a thorough understanding of Roman military thinking, who were dedicated to the use of overwhelming force in order to win whenever possible without undertaking bloody combat. Charlemagne emerges from this study, to paraphrase a observation attributed to Scipio Africanus, as a military commander and not a warrior. |
Indhold
Introduction | 1 |
Charlemagne and Carloman | 108 |
Opportunities and Problems | 139 |
Phase One | 177 |
4 The Unwanted War | 246 |
5 The Siege of Pavia | 310 |
6 The Fall of Pavia and Its Aftermath | 374 |
Phase Two | 427 |
8 The Friuli Diversion | 473 |
9 The End of the Saxon War | 510 |
10 Integration of the Saxon Territory | 566 |
Conclusions | 631 |
654 | |
691 | |
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Abbot addition Adelchis Annales Aquitaine attack Autchar Bachrach base Bavarian Bernard Büraburg Byzantine campaign capture Carloman Carolingian army Carolingian court Carolingian military century Charlemagne Charlemagne’s army Charlemagne’s military Charles Martel clear command context defense deployed Desiderius discussion Duke Early Carolingian Warfare Early Medieval early Middle Ages east efforts Eigil Einhard enemy Eresburg established example expeditionary fortifications fortress city Frankish kingdom Franks Fritzlar Friuli frontier Fulda garrison Gerperga idem imperial important invasion Irminsul Italy Karl kilometers King Pippin king’s large numbers Lombard king Lombard kingdom Magistratus magnates Martel McKitterick Merovingian military operations mobilized monastery Novalesa papal Pavia perhaps Pope Hadrian Pope Stephen Pope Stephen III pope’s regarding regnum Francorum Rhine river Roman Rome route royal Saxon region Saxon territory scholars siege sources strategy stronghold Sturm Syburg tactical Tassilo tion Treviso tripartite alliance troops V.S. Sturmi Verona Vicenza walls Weser