2 март 800 г. - Charlemagne

Описание:

The crowning of Charlemagne, first as King of the Franks, then in 800, as Holy Roman Emperor had some effects. 1. By Charlemagne’s edict, cathedrals and monasteries were required to maintain schools, initially for training the clergy. 2. Charlemagne’s court and palace school attracted scholars, notably Alcuin of York, who helped develop a new style of writing, called Carolingian. It was intended to be easier to read and to write and was thought to imitate Roman writing (it didn’t).

He was the first recognised emperor in western Europe since the fall of the Western Roman Empire three centuries earlier.

He campaigned against the Saxons to his east, Christianising them upon penalty of death