{"id":375303,"date":"2018-08-29T07:33:24","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T06:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/making-an-omelette-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2018-08-29T07:33:24","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T06:33:24","slug":"making-an-omelette-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/making-an-omelette-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Making an Omelette – LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Birth of the West: Rome, Germany, France, and the Creation of Europe in the Tenth Century<\/em><\/a>, by Paul Collins<\/p>\n

I have touched on Charlemagne and his centralizing, warrior ways in a few of my posts regarding the Middle Ages; it is time to focus specifically on this murderer, the one for whom\u00a0a great prize of Europe<\/a>\u00a0is awarded annually.\u00a0\u00a0When one understands Charlemagne and his methods, one will understand what lies just beneath the surface of those who advocate for the cause of the European Union.<\/p>\n

The Background<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was Charlemagne\u2019s objective to unite Christian Europe, to make Christian that which was not, and to expand his creation.\u00a0\u00a0Charlemagne inherited his Kingdom of the Franks from his grandfather Charles Martel (who defeated the Muslims at Poitier-Tours thus ending the Muslim advance into Europe) and his father Pippin III \u2013 Pippin \u201cthe Short.\u201d<\/p>\n

Charlemagne expanded this kingdom to include present day France, Germany, northern and central Italy, and northeastern Spain.\u00a0\u00a0Let\u2019s just say it didn\u2019t happen peacefully.\u00a0\u00a0Let\u2019s also just say that the entire creation was held together by string and bubble-gum: Charlemagne\u2019s personality.
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Disparate peoples with separate histories, laws languages, and traditions were unwilling to be bound together into a single polity unless the ruler was strong enough to maintain unity.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

No, I haven\u2019t just suddenly started writing about 2018.\u00a0\u00a0In any case, I will modify Collins\u2019 view: that \u201cthe ruler was strong enough to maintain unity\u201d did not make this disparate people \u201cwilling.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0That Charlemagne\u2019s personality held it together was obvious with his death; the…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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