Charlemagne

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani refers to Charlemagne only occasionally, most often as a historical reference point. He stresses a paradox: this illiterate emperor, who signed with a cross, founded schools12. He also takes it as a sign that history is not linear, since this empire of illiterates is less well known than Cicero's Rome3. With him, he says, we are only just beginning to emerge from the dark ages. He mentions him again in connection with music, when Paul the Deacon leads the Easter mass before him4. In his reflections on Eastern Europe, he takes him as the starting point of twelve centuries of struggle between Germans and Slavs, up to Stalingrad5. He recalls that Charlemagne "pacified" and converted the Saxons by fire and sword, and enslaved the peoples of the East6. He also uses him to date the Grand Duchy of Kiev and to place German legal archaisms, which he traces back to before Charlemagne.

1. 1#6.6 • La Logique du Sujet face à la reconstitution du nazisme29 Mar 2020 · 2:06
2. 2#10 UKRAINE : Du problème des "Bords" au déchaînement de la guerre24 Feb 2022 · 57:45
3. 3Entre mer et montagne, les pierres levées du Valinco (Le néolithique corse)24 Nov 2020 · 28:50
4. 4De la voix perdue à la voie de la modernité • De la musique modale à la musique tonale • D Pagani23 May 2021 · 15:24
5. 5#2.4 Entre crise et guerre : Philosopher ?10 Mar 2016 · 36:23
6. 6#10 UKRAINE : Du problème des "Bords" au déchaînement de la guerre24 Feb 2022 · 1:13:11

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