TY - JOUR AU - Bernard S. Bachrach PY - 2022 CY - Berlin, Germany PB - Peter Lang Verlag JF - Mediaevistik IS - 1 VL - 32 SN - 2199-806X TI - Charlemagne’s Health in ‘Old Age’: Did It Affect Carolingian Military Strategy? DO - 10.3726/med.2019.01.01 UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1272108 N2 - 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 ER -