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The Free UCS Outline Fonts [1] (also known as freefont) is a font collection project. The project was started by Primož Peterlin and is currently administered by Steve White. The aim of this project has been to produce a package of fonts by collecting existing free fonts and special donations, to support as many Unicode characters as possible.
'Hamburgevons' rendered using seven fonts: Helvetica Neue, Semplicità, Ernestine, Gimlet, Marcia, Adobe Caslon and Garibaldi. The word Hamburgevons (also Hamburgefons, Hamburgefonstiv or Hamburgefönstiv) is a short piece of meaningless filler text used for assessing the design and the appearance of a typeface.
The Capitulare missorum generale ("General capitulary on legates") and Capitularia missorum specialia ("Special capitularies on legates"), both issued in 802, were acts of Charlemagne whereby the role and functions of the missi dominici ("royal legates") were defined and placed on a permanent footing, as well as specific instructions sent out to the various missatica (the missi's territories).
Under Charlemagne their excellence was a translation of the treasure built up from conquest into a symbolic permanence as well as exclaiming royal authority. [ 43 ] [ 41 ] Einhard suggested the construction of so-called 'public buildings' was a testament to Charlemagne's greatness and likeness to the emperors of antiquity and this connection ...
Middle Francia (Latin: Francia media) was a short-lived Frankish kingdom which was created in 843 by the Treaty of Verdun after an intermittent civil war between the grandsons of Charlemagne resulted in division of the united empire. Middle Francia was allocated to emperor Lothair I, the eldest son and successor of emperor Louis the Pious.
Translatio imperii (Latin for 'transfer of rule') is a historiographical concept that was prominent in the Middle Ages in the thinking and writing of elite groups of the population in Europe, but was the reception of a concept from antiquity.
Following Charlemagne's death, Louis was made ruler of the Frankish Empire. Agobard, archbishop of Lyon, opposed the division of the empire, as he claimed that it would divide the church. [1] During his reign, Louis the Pious divided the empire so that each of his sons could rule over their own kingdom under the greater rule of their father.
The rhetoric of Alcuin and Charlemagne (1941). [368] A translation, with an introduction, the Latin text, and notes by Wilbur Samuel Howell (born 1904). [369] Aldhelm. Aldhelm (c. 639 – 709) was bishop of Sherborne, and a writer and scholar of Latin poetry. [370] Aldhelm is one of twelve Anglo-Saxon poets identified in mediaeval sources. [371]