essay+charlemagne

 __Charlemagne Essay __  In the Frankish empire, Charlemagne was constantly looking for new scholars to teach at his new schools and new universities because he knew the value of an education when you’re young, seeing as how at around age 40 he tried teaching himself Latin but failed. He was always looking for new opportunities to expand his empire, defeat his enemies, help his allies and make new allies. Charlemagne also always was looking to improve his government and expand it in ways pleasing to his citizens and himself. __We can learn many things that will help improve modern day government from Charlemagne and the Frankish Empire.__

Firstly, we need a government whose main concern is our education. In the Frankish Empire Charlemagne went to great lengths to improve the education system in his empire, by importing scholars from all over to teach and creating tons of new schools and universities. He also had manuals produced for the public to teach them Latin. He also ordered Latin poetry and Latin prose to be preserved and during his time his empire preserved almost all the remaining old Latin literature. Also people under his rule built the first ever free schools. If we had a leader like this today we would probably have one of the highest literacy rates and we’d probably have much more advanced technology.

Secondly, Charlemagne had many powerful friends and allies such as: the king of England, Abbasid caliph, the Anglo-Saxon kings of Northumbria and Mercia, the ruler of Asturias, the Danish leader, the Gascon’s and Breton’s of Gaul and several Slavic tribes. This enabled Charlemagne to attack other countries with a lesser fear of attack. As you can see he was quite a warrior having a 30 year military campaign and he fought in most of the battles that occurred during that time. He was also called warrior chief from Frankish tradition. But when Charlemagne stopped fighting and expanding he was attacked and his empire slowly diminished after his death.

Thirdly, Charlemagne had many aspects to his government that made it a success and allowed him to rule most of Western Europe. He had missi dominici’s who acted like counselors of wards, inspecting different districts of the Frankish Empire making sure justice was upheld. He also kept the laws in place of the places he conquered to appease the citizens. He also created many capitularies which were sometimes new laws to help stabilize different areas of his empire. He also held annual assemblies where he would hear complaints from counts, bishops, abbots and powerful magnates to improve people’s lives. The Frankish empire was also co-operated by Charlemagne’s family and close friends, to help ease the stress of him doing everything and leaving more space for new ideas. In relation to today’s society we already have most of that but we need a leader that takes the public’s interest in to more consideration and laws should be able to be passed faster so our country is fast and efficient.

Using these great methods that Charlemagne used for government and how to run a country would greatly benefit us. This form of government could help us heal the rifts between Quebec and the rest of Canada and other problems we face because if you look back for enough you can find everything you need to survive and improve modern day life.

 