The Library
1774 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.
801–900
2 works
c. 828–836
Latin
Vita Karoli Magni
Einhard · c. 775–840
A short life on the model of Suetonius by a courtier who knew him — his campaigns, his family, his swimming, his failure to learn to write, his dislike of foreign clothes.
c. 883–887
Latin
Notker the Stammerer · c. 840–912
Anecdotes about Charlemagne collected two generations later — the bishop caught out by a trick, the iron king glimpsed by an approaching enemy, the emperor testing his courtiers' vanity.
2 of 1774 works