Kristian Powell’s Reviews > Charlemagne's Mustache: And Other Cultural Clusters of a Dark Age > Status Update

Good day for reading, the stars were VERY important to the Carolingians

Charlemagne probably could read, he just wasn’t great at it. He started writing too late to have anything more than an adolescent writing level by modern standards. Also the way he started the chapter is so funny.

This whole time I thought that Abul Abbas was an unexpected gift to Charlemagne. It is so funny to imagine that he was obsessively sending out emissaries to the Caliphate with the hopes of procuring an elephant.

Very descriptive, Dutton taps well into the personality of Charlemagne and other Carolingian notables.