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 .
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