Louis the Stammerer

King of West Francia from 877 to 879

Louis the Stammerer belongs to the record of public life as a figure whose work outlasted the moment that produced it.

The record lists Louis the Stammerer as King of West Francia from 877 to 879.

Louis the Stammerer was born in 846.

Learning then moved through courts, monasteries and madrasas, and reach depended on which libraries and translations lay within travelling distance.

The record gives his occupations as monarch.

Power is judged twice: once by contemporaries who felt it, and again by historians who did not.

Louis the Stammerer died in 879 at the age of 33. The work outlived the arguments around it.

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