From jfgannon@cloud9.net Sat Jun 3 14:31:57 2000 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id OAA33868 for ; Sat, 3 Jun 2000 14:31:56 -0700 Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id OAA26157 for ; Sat, 3 Jun 2000 14:31:55 -0700 Received: from cloud9.net (jfgannon.dialup.cloud9.net [168.100.203.180]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 045CA76319 for ; Sat, 3 Jun 2000 17:31:53 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3939793F.50414AF@cloud9.net> Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 17:31:44 -0400 From: "J.F. Gannon" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: classics@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Carolus Magnus References: <393949AC.D14EF22@cloud9.net> <39394FA4.2B36407B@charm.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit SM's life stories give new meaning to the old Dean Martin song "Everybody loves somebody sometime". JFG > 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 .