%0 Journal Article
%A Bernard S. Bachrach
%D 2022
%C Berlin, Germany
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%J Mediaevistik
%@ 2199-806X
%N 1
%V 32
%T Charlemagne’s Health in ‘Old Age’: Did It Affect Carolingian Military Strategy?
%R 10.3726/med.2019.01.01
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1272108
%X During the first thirty-three years of his reign as king of the Franks, i.e., prior to his coronation as emperor on Christmas day 800, Charlemagne, scholars generally agree, pursued a successful long-term offensive and expansionist strategy. This strategy was aimed at conquering large swaths of erstwhile imperial territory in the west and bringing under Carolingian rule a wide variety of peoples, who either themselves or their regional predecessors previously had not been subject to Frankish