Ottewill - Soulsby Sam - The Emperor And The Elephant Christians And Muslims In The Age Of Charlemagne - Hardcover Shakespeare Studies & Criticism Barcode: 9780367484729

Barcode: 9780367484729

Category: Israel

Author(s): Lesaffer Randall (Universiteit Van Tilburg The Netherlands)

Description: Available again a major monograph on the legendary US typographer and graphic designer Herb Lubalin

Author(s): Kennedy Mark

Ottewill - Soulsby Sam - The Emperor And The Elephant Christians And Muslims In The Age Of Charlemagne - Hardcover Shakespeare Studies & Criticism Barcode: 9780367484729Binding: Hardcover Description: A new history of Christian Muslim relations in the Carolingian period that provides a fresh account of events by drawing on Arabic as well as western sources In the year 802, an elephant arrived at the court of the Emperor Charlemagne in Aachen sent as a gift by the ? Abbasid Caliph Harun al Rashid. This extraordinary moment was part of a much wider set of diplomatic relations between the Carolingian dynasty and the