Example sentences of "[prep] charles [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Sir Kenelm Digby , philosopher-scientist , soldier-diplomat , ardent royalist , lifelong friend and confidant of Charles the First 's widow , Queen Henrietta Maria , was born in 1603 and died in 1664 . |
2 | The guild hall has a statue of Charles the first , Charles the second and Queen Anne over the top . |
3 | All the same , what would you think of these reasons for inserting a piece of autobiography into the second defence of the English people , a defence of course for cutting off the head of Charles the First . |
4 | Their exploitation of this recently opened path aroused jealousy among the knights , one of whom refused to answer a charge levelled against him by the Erembalds in the court of Charles the Good , on the ground that his accusers ' lowly social origins barred them from comital justice . |
5 | The territories described above were all to feel the military might of the Franks under the remarkable leadership of Charles the Great . |
6 | The achievements of Charles the Great were comprehensive : in addition to advances in religion , law and military rule during his reign , he worked extensively to develop learning within his empire . |
7 | Eriugena himself was never part of the Carolingian ecclesiastical establishment and worked directly under the private patronage of Charles the Bald . |
8 | In Aquitaine , too , this connection seems likely , in that silver coins modelled on those of Charles the Bald circulated until the serious financial crisis of 1103 , brought on by William IX 's crusading expenses ; then the silver coin was devalued , followed in 1112 by a further devaluation , which preceded a period of marked economic growth . |
9 | In the Gesta this genealogy creates a sharp contrast between the kings and the counts of Anjou , whose origins are said to lie in a ‘ new man ’ , a forester of the reign of Charles the Bald . |
10 | The victory of Charles the Bald ( 823 – 877 ) and his brother Louis over their elder brother the Emperor Lothar resulted in a division of Charlemagne 's inheritance that has proved permanent . |
11 | Caesar 's Gaul had been bounded by the " natural frontiers " of the North Sea and the Mediterranean , the Pyrenees and the Rhine , and France was its direct descendant — via the " French " kingdom of Charles the Bald . |
12 | The recent treatment of Charles the Bald alone , or in a " French " context , by several British historians has tended to obscure this broader geographic dimension of Carolingian familial politics . |
13 | In the case of Charles the Bald , though , given the rich documentation , and the giants ' spadework , the surprising thing ( to invert Dr Johnson on women preachers ) is not that it 's been done badly , but that — with two partial exceptions — it has not been done at all . |
14 | So-called " ruler-portraits " nearly always turn out to be stereotypes : in the context of Carolingian group-identity , the precise point about images of Charles the Bald was the resemblance to Louis the Pious and Charlemagne , his father and grandfather . |
15 | A fairly long , extremely active and relatively well-documented royal life like that of Charles the Bald can serve modern students as a thread through the maze of complex power-relations , and at the same time it leads back to the heart of events . |
16 | Montesquieu did not omit the deficiencies of Charles 's father Louis the Pious , nor the contributory factors of French fickleness and Viking destruction : but he put the chief blame on the " weak spirit of Charles the Bald " and , in particular , on the heritability of fiefs which Charles had permitted . |
17 | This still widely-held interpretation of ninth-century history , and of Charles the Bald as a Bad King , is there in embryo in the final section of Montesquieu 's book . |
18 | Nine " portraits " of Charles the Bald are extant : five depicted in manuscripts ; one carved in ivory ; two cast in metal ; and finally a coin-image . |
19 | Hence some recent advocates of Charles the Bald 's partial " rehabilitation " have damned with faint praise : the art-historians ' artful exponent of royal style remains , for the historians of politics , a ruler without substantial authority . |
20 | It just so happens that this region includes the heartland of Charles the Bald 's kingdom . |
21 | A charter of Charles the Bald in 875 exempted the peasants of St-Philibert , Tournus , in Burgundy from market dues " whether they are trading for the abbey or for themselves " . |
22 | Neither aprisiones nor hospitia are documented before the Carolingian period , and they occur more often in the reign of Charles the Bald than previously . |
23 | Even if mansi absi , or aprisiones , or hospitia , as a proportion of the total number of holdings in any area , remained small , they were a sign of " dynamism " particularly visible in the heartland of the kingdom of Charles the Bald . |
24 | Such growth is documented before the reign of Charles the Bald : the polyptych of St-Victor Marseilles dates from the later years of Charlemagne 's reign , that of St-Germain ( probably ) from the earlier part of Louis the Pious 's . |
25 | During the reign of Charles the Bald , however , such developments not only continued but showed cumulative effects . |
26 | But by the reign of Charles the Bald , while the court remained a large consumer , demand had spread more widely among the elite , and cash transactions multiplied in the countryside . |
27 | In eight major hoards found on French sites and containing coins of Charles the Bald , there are no foreign coins . |
28 | The West Frankish syndrome is difficult to account for unless we assume a measure of sustained interest on the part of Charles the Bald himself . |
29 | What influenced Hincmar most ( though his description idealised it a little ) was the regime of Charles the Bald , especially its latter years . |
30 | Dhuoda and Nithard wrote at the very beginning of Charles the Bald 's reign : Nithard believed the young king showed promise , Dhuoda that this generation of Carolingians were predestined by God to rule , and with His help would shine forth in their success . |