Example sentences of "[prep] charles [art] [adj] 's reign " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | For the most part , the political history of Charles the Bald 's reign which is this book 's prime focus was the concern of an aristocratic elite . |
| 3 | The evidence from Charles the Bald 's reign is surprisingly clear : he could and did intervene thus — on numerous occasions and in counties that were vitally important politically and militarily . |
| 4 | All three comital functions are documented in Charles the Bald 's reign , though royal instructions have a good deal more to say about the first and second than about the third . |
| 5 | Such a neutralising of the grantor 's intentions was not something that evolved in Charles the Bald 's reign , a degradation of a once-pure system : rather , there was always , from the time when the earliest precarial grants are documented , a tendency for grants to be assimilated to hereditary lands , and then be passed along with those to the beneficiary 's heirs . |
| 6 | The point is important , because much of the modern secondary literature on Charles the Bald 's reign , and on the Carolingians generally , has depicted the aristocracy as greedy and boorish , incapable of sharing the higher aspirations of kings or clergy , lacking any sense of public interest . |
| 7 | This domanial regime suited large-scale landlords with far-flung holdings ( great monasteries were landlords of this type ) , and by Charles the Bald 's reign , it had become general in much of what is now France north of the Loire with some examples also further south in Poitou . |