Excerpt from Charlemagne

The popular view of history possesses two characteristics: first, it deals in broad generalizations, and marks history out into great Periods; secondly, it is attracted by great individualities, and seizes on certain Men as the representatives of the Periods in which they lived.

Thus Charlemagne stands in the popular view as the representative man of that obscure but very important period in which three elements - the ancient civilization of the Empire of the West, the fresh vigour of the Barbarians who overran it, and the Church - were being fused into the national life of medi?val Europe.

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