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Charlemagne: Learning
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Charlemagne was no insignificant legislator. His Capitularies may not be equal to the laws of Justinian in natural justice, but were adapted to his times and circumstances. He collected the scattered codes, so far as laws were codified, of the various Germanic nations, and modified them. He introduced a great Christian element into his jurisprudence. He made use of the canons of the Church. His code is more ecclesiastical than that of Theodosius even, the last great Christian emperor.
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Charlemagne is a genetic programming application that includes both a commandline client and an interactive console mode. It is written in Python and Lisp, and is user extensible to some degree in both languages. It features built-in input-output mapping support and provides the ability to define complex fitness calculations in Lisp or Python.
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Charlemagne never stopped studying. He brought an English monk, Alcuin, and other scholars to his court. He learned to read Latin and some Greek but apparently did not master writing. At meals, instead of having jesters perform, he listened to men reading from learned works.
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Charlemagne did not think much of this system of justice. He started a new system. He set up a system of trial by panel. Under Charlemagne's system, each accused person would be heard by a panel of honorable men, men who had taken an oath to listen and to judge fairly based on the evidence presented. There was still corruption, but this system had a much better chance of being fair than did the old one.
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In the reconstruction Charlemagne is deliberately not represented with an orb or a sceptre. The custom to depict a king with these objects originates only from the time of Charles the Bald. The beard as a symbol of royal dignity wasn't fashionable until the era of the Ottonians.
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Much of what is known of Charlemagne's life comes from his biographer, Einhard, who wrote a Vita Caroli Magni (or Vita Karoli Magni), the Life of Charlemagne. Einhard says of the early life of Charles:
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