Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun] the bald " in BNC.
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| 1 | So-called " ruler-portraits " nearly always turn out to be stereotypes : in the context of Carolingian group-identity , the precise point about images of Charles the Bald was the resemblance to Louis the Pious and Charlemagne , his father and grandfather . |
| 2 | Eriugena himself was never part of the Carolingian ecclesiastical establishment and worked directly under the private patronage of Charles the Bald . |
| 3 | The West Frankish syndrome is difficult to account for unless we assume a measure of sustained interest on the part of Charles the Bald himself . |
| 4 | In eight major hoards found on French sites and containing coins of Charles the Bald , there are no foreign coins . |
| 5 | It just so happens that this region includes the heartland of Charles the Bald 's kingdom . |
| 6 | In the case of Charles the Bald , though , given the rich documentation , and the giants ' spadework , the surprising thing ( to invert Dr Johnson on women preachers ) is not that it 's been done badly , but that — with two partial exceptions — it has not been done at all . |
| 7 | In the reigns of Charles the Bald 's predecessors , the count 's first main function was to look after royal estates ( fisc-lands ) and royal income ( for instance from tolls and fines ) within his county . |
| 8 | Dhuoda and Nithard wrote at the very beginning of Charles the Bald 's reign : Nithard believed the young king showed promise , Dhuoda that this generation of Carolingians were predestined by God to rule , and with His help would shine forth in their success . |
| 9 | The victory of Charles the Bald ( 823 – 877 ) and his brother Louis over their elder brother the Emperor Lothar resulted in a division of Charlemagne 's inheritance that has proved permanent . |
| 10 | Caesar 's Gaul had been bounded by the " natural frontiers " of the North Sea and the Mediterranean , the Pyrenees and the Rhine , and France was its direct descendant — via the " French " kingdom of Charles the Bald . |
| 11 | Even if mansi absi , or aprisiones , or hospitia , as a proportion of the total number of holdings in any area , remained small , they were a sign of " dynamism " particularly visible in the heartland of the kingdom of Charles the Bald . |
| 12 | Charlemagne and Louis the Pious and their counsellors had strengthened the authority of archbishops , and promoted regular meetings of councils of one province or of several provinces : trends that continued after 840 , and especially in the kingdom of Charles the Bald . |
| 13 | In both cases , though some parallel texts survive from Lotharingia , from East Francia and Italy , the bulk of the evidence comes from the kingdom of Charles the Bald . |
| 14 | A charter of Charles the Bald in 875 exempted the peasants of St-Philibert , Tournus , in Burgundy from market dues " whether they are trading for the abbey or for themselves " . |
| 15 | Montesquieu did not omit the deficiencies of Charles 's father Louis the Pious , nor the contributory factors of French fickleness and Viking destruction : but he put the chief blame on the " weak spirit of Charles the Bald " and , in particular , on the heritability of fiefs which Charles had permitted . |
| 16 | In the Gesta this genealogy creates a sharp contrast between the kings and the counts of Anjou , whose origins are said to lie in a ‘ new man ’ , a forester of the reign of Charles the Bald . |
| 17 | Neither aprisiones nor hospitia are documented before the Carolingian period , and they occur more often in the reign of Charles the Bald than previously . |
| 18 | Such growth is documented before the reign of Charles the Bald : the polyptych of St-Victor Marseilles dates from the later years of Charlemagne 's reign , that of St-Germain ( probably ) from the earlier part of Louis the Pious 's . |
| 19 | During the reign of Charles the Bald , however , such developments not only continued but showed cumulative effects . |
| 20 | But by the reign of Charles the Bald , while the court remained a large consumer , demand had spread more widely among the elite , and cash transactions multiplied in the countryside . |
| 21 | For the most part , the political history of Charles the Bald 's reign which is this book 's prime focus was the concern of an aristocratic elite . |
| 22 | The recent treatment of Charles the Bald alone , or in a " French " context , by several British historians has tended to obscure this broader geographic dimension of Carolingian familial politics . |
| 23 | Counts needing the wherewithal to attract service were likely to cast greedy eyes on royal benefices within their counties : but in the West Frankish kingdom , the earliest evidence of such " mediatisation " of vassi dominici comes only after the death of Charles the Bald . |
| 24 | Hence some recent advocates of Charles the Bald 's partial " rehabilitation " have damned with faint praise : the art-historians ' artful exponent of royal style remains , for the historians of politics , a ruler without substantial authority . |
| 25 | What influenced Hincmar most ( though his description idealised it a little ) was the regime of Charles the Bald , especially its latter years . |
| 26 | Such was the fate of Charles of Aquitaine , second son of Charles the Bald : horribly wounded , he lingered on , to die two years later . |