Charlemagne_ From the Hammer to the Cross
Written by: Richard Winston
Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins 
Unabridged Audiobook
Release Date:06-02-04
Publisher: Audio Connoisseur

Charlemagne was easily one of the most fascinating figures in Western civilization, as well as the most heroic and romantic. The 47 years of his reign marked some of the most significant and far reaching events of the Middle Ages. Undoubtedly, it was his enlightened vision for Europe that resulted in the Carolingian Renaissance, a period of cultural flowering that never really ceased to develop, and which led in a straight line directly to that period of astonishing achievement we now call the High Gothic