From nauplion@charm.net Sat Jun 3 11:40:44 2000 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id LAA35142 for ; Sat, 3 Jun 2000 11:40:43 -0700 Received: from fellspt.charm.net (root@fellspt.charm.net [199.0.70.29]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id LAA04422 for ; Sat, 3 Jun 2000 11:40:42 -0700 Received: from charm.net (coretel-116-248.charm.net [209.143.116.248]) by fellspt.charm.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA19252 for ; Sat, 3 Jun 2000 14:40:35 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <39394FA4.2B36407B@charm.net> Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 14:34:18 -0400 From: Diana Wright X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-DIAL (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en,el,tr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: classics@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Carolus Magnus References: <393949AC.D14EF22@cloud9.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "J.F. Gannon" wrote: > Could this NPR interest in Charlemagne have been prompted by the very recent > presentation of the Charlemagne Award to a well known citizen of the U.S.? If > so this garbled account may have been assembled in indecent haste to put the > products of 12-16 years of rote-memorization-free education in the picture. > Not to worry. They will soon forget. > > J.F. Gannon Charlemagne has been much in the news recently. We were also informed a week or so ago, by actress Shirley McClaine, that she had memories of two highly gratifying affairs with Charlemagne: one with him way back when, and another when he was reincarnated as Sweden's Olof Palme. DW > Elias J Theodoracopoulos wrote: > > > A few minutes ago Linda Wertheimer of NPR spoke of Charlemagne's political > > and military achievements, and pointed out that, although he could not > > write well (I thought that he was entirely illiterate), he commanded > > scribes throughout the HRE to copy mss. Without his efforts, said LW, 90% > > of classical (not Roman, but *classical*) would have perished. Is the > > percentage of Carolingian mss (or of lost Carolingian hyparchetypes) that > > high? Anybody heard of Byzantium or Benevento? > > > > EJTh .