Excerpt from St. Bernard: Abbot of Clairvaux, A. D. 1091-1153 Charles multiplied many times the effect of his reign. The constant wars which were then the normal con dition of a sovereign's life did not indeed advantage much either religion or culture. Though Charles ex tended his empire over the whole of Lower Germany up to and beyond the Elbe, it occupied him thirty years to complete the subjugation of the warlike Saxons who occupied those countries. At its greatest extension his empire included all the territory west Of the Elbe, the Saale, the mountains of Bohemia, and a line (drawn southwards from thence crossing the river Danube above Vienna and extending to the Gulf of Istria. He held the greater part of Italy, almost as far as Naples, and Spain up to the Ebro. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.