Example sentences of "[prep] louis [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Style of architecture etcetera , prevalent during the reign of Louis the fifteenth |
| 2 | Another great missionary , St Anskar , had to engage in similar arguments when he preached ( under the sponsorship of Louis the Pious ) to the Swedes at the prosperous port of Birka in the ninth century . |
| 3 | But there were others who had traded with the Carolingian West ( coins of Louis the Pious and other Frankish objects have been found at Birka ) , who had come to know Christianity from their trading connections , and who formed the bedrock of Anskar 's support . |
| 4 | Since the division of the empire by the sons of Louis the Pious in 843 , there had been a tradition that the imperial crown went with the possession of the middle kingdom , the kingdom of Louis 's eldest son , Lothar . |
| 5 | The appointment of a Benedictine abbot as chief adviser to the king was sufficiently unusual to call to mind Benedict of Aniane 's position in the early years of Louis the Pious 's reign . |
| 6 | Lothar , the eldest of Louis the Pious 's legitimate sons , had acquired the title of emperor even before Charles was born , and dominated his generation until his death in 855 . |
| 7 | National prejudices have waned ; stereotyped " feudalism " has been demolished ; Carolingian government has been newly appraised ; reassessments have been offered of Louis the Pious , of the Vikings , even of the ninth-century Frankish nobility . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Bernard 's father , a kinsman of Charlemagne , had been count of Toulouse , and several of his sons had shared his inheritance of land and position in the south-west of Gaul ( though only Bernard achieved high favour at the court of Louis the Pious ) . |
| 10 | The last years of Louis the Pious have been seen ( where they have been " seen " by historians at all ) as a period during which Judith gained an increasing ascendancy , as the old emperor lost his grip . |
| 11 | But as Nithard went on to observe , the policy had originally , back in 823 , been that of Louis the Pious himself . |
| 12 | But for the donations of Louis the Pious in 817 and of Otto I in 962 we ave texts , the Ludovicianum and the Ottonianum , which have been accepted as genuine . |
| 13 | Walter Map , reflecting on the changed character of French kingship in the twelfth century , saw the period between Louis the Pious 's reign and the accession of his namesake Louis VI as one of deep depression , with 1108 marking a decisive turning-point . |
| 14 | For Louis the Pious 's following , the choice was painfully hard . |
| 15 | He hailed almost certainly from the region of the lower Loire , where a close kinsman ( perhaps his father ) had been killed fighting for Louis the Pious in 834 and already before 842 another probable close kinsman , Rainald , was count of Herbauge and dux of Nantes . |
| 16 | There is no direct evidence at all as to even which year Charlemagne was born ; in Louis the Pious 's case , the year ( but not the exact date ) of birth was recorded by the Astronomer , his anonymous biographer , because Louis was exceptional as the survivor of a pair of twin boys . |
| 17 | In 831 , Charles was assigned a new importance in Louis the Pious 's reconstructed family . |
| 18 | These losses , politically damaging , and bad for morale ( they were seen in Louis the Pious 's entourage as divine retribution on former rebels ) , weakened Lothar 's resistance to his father 's pressure . |
| 19 | The age of organ-building goes back at least to Louis the Pious , for whom a Venetian priest called George built an organ at Aachen in 826 , and it is reflected in the lively illustrations of organs in the Utrecht Psalter , a Reims manuscript of about 830 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | A substantial contingent of men from his abbey had been among Louis the Pious 's forces in Aquitaine since the previous autumn , and when they returned to Ferrières in July 840 , they brought first-hand news of Gerard 's appointment as commander of Charles 's garrison at Limoges . |
| 22 | Pippin " fled " back to Aquitaine , and welcomed an unexpected ally : Bernard , who had lost forever any chance of recovering great influence at Louis the Pious 's court . |