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Charlemagne by Johannes Fried (review)

Charlemagne by Johannes Fried (review) Book Reviews 105 non-European mode) was a different story, with diplomatic and legal implications. These uncertain sovereignties are featured in chapter 6, illustrated by events in Sumatra and the Rio de la Plata in South America. The modern impulse to categorize and regularize, familiar from stories of ethnographic and geographic exploration, appear here in the guise of legal regimes and rubrics. Imperial interests were, ironically, sometimes advanced by finding a recognizable polity with whom to do business, rather than just relying on gunboat diplomacy. Benton and Ford have constructed marvelous stories, pushed at disciplinary boundaries, and set the stage for new perspectives on empire, law, and historiography. STEVE HARRIS San Francisco State University Charlemagne.By JOHANNES FRIED. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. 688 pp. $39.95 (hardcover). In 673 densely packed pages, Johannes Fried offers his “visualization of Charlemagne” (p. vii) “to a readership beyond academic circles” (p. x). The clever opening gambit of labeling the book as a “work of fiction” from “his own imagination” (p. vii) effectively insulates Fried from scholarly critiques about the “accuracy” of the details of his portrait. Although I disagree with, or fail to see the evidentiary warrant for, a number of his specific http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of World History University of Hawai'I Press

Charlemagne by Johannes Fried (review)

Lifshitz, Felice
Journal of World History , Volume 29 (1) – Mar 1, 2018
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Book Reviews 105 non-European mode) was a different story, with diplomatic and legal implications. These uncertain sovereignties are featured in chapter 6, illustrated by events in Sumatra and the Rio de la Plata in South America. The modern impulse to categorize and regularize, familiar from stories of ethnographic and geographic exploration, appear here in the guise of legal regimes and rubrics. Imperial interests were, ironically, sometimes advanced by finding a recognizable polity with whom to do business, rather than just relying on gunboat diplomacy. Benton and Ford have constructed marvelous stories, pushed at disciplinary boundaries, and set the stage for new perspectives on empire, law, and historiography. STEVE HARRIS San Francisco State University Charlemagne.By JOHANNES FRIED. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. 688 pp. $39.95 (hardcover). In 673 densely packed pages, Johannes Fried offers his “visualization of Charlemagne” (p. vii) “to a readership beyond academic circles” (p. x). The clever opening gambit of labeling the book as a “work of fiction” from “his own imagination” (p. vii) effectively insulates Fried from scholarly critiques about the “accuracy” of the details of his portrait. Although I disagree with, or fail to see the evidentiary warrant for, a number of his specific

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Published: Mar 1, 2018

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