" The most learned man anywhere to be found " according to Einhard's Life of Charlemagne, he is considered among the most important architects of the Carolingian Renaissance.

The most famous of Einhard's works is his biography of Charlemagne, the Vita Karoli Magni, " The Life of Charlemagne " ( c. 817 – 836 ), which provides much direct information about Charlemagne's life and character, written sometime between 817 and 830.

* Vita Karoli Magni -- Einhard's Life of Charlemagne, Latin text at The Latin Library

* Early Lives of Charlemagne -- Einhard's Life of Charlemage and an anonymous monk of St. Gall's Life of Charlemagne.

* Translation of Einhard's Life of Charlemagne ( c. 817 – 830, translated in 1880 )

It is also clear from the text that Asser was familiar with Virgil's Aeneid, Caelius Sedulius's Carmen Paschale, Aldhelm's De Virginitate, and Einhard's Vita Karoli Magni (" Life of Charlemagne ").

The Carolingian Renaissance in retrospect also has some of the character of a false dawn, in that its cultural gains were largely dissipated within a couple of generations, a perception voiced by Walahfrid Strabo ( died 849 ), in his introduction to Einhard's Life of Charlemagne, summing up the generation of renewal:

Einhard's Life of Charlemagne recounts the emperor's summertime siesta: " In summer, after his midday meal, he would eat some fruit and take another drink ; then he would remove his shoes and undress completely, just as he did at night, and rest for two or three hours.

" At the court of Charlemagne the Norse were given this attribution, implying un-Christian and less-than-human qualities: " I am greatly saddened " said the King of the Franks, in Notker's Life, " that I have not been thought worthy to let my Christian hand sport with these dog-heads.

Einhard made these claims in " Vita Karoli Magni " ( Life of Charles the Great ), a biography of Charlemagne, King of the Franks.

In Einhard's Life of Charlemagne the author recounts the Emperor's practice, when he was dressing and putting on his shoes, to invite his friends to come in, and in case of a dispute brought to his attention, " he would order the disputants to be brought in there and then, hear the case as if he were sitting in tribunal and pronounce a judgement.

This carried over into the more urbanized late 19th and early 20th centuries, when the man ruled the roost in the best bull-roaring Life With Father manner.

Pu Songling brought the short story form to a new level in his Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, published in the mid-18th century, and Shen Fu demonstrated the charm of the informal memoir in Six Chapters of a Floating Life, written in the early 19th century but published only in 1877.

After the initial successes of the Ecumenical Movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including the Edinburgh Missionary Conference of 1910 ( chaired by future WCC Honorary President John R. Mott ), church leaders agreed in 1937 to establish a World Council of Churches, based on a merger of the Faith and Order Movement and Life and Work Movement organisations.

Edwards is well known for his many books, The End For Which God Created the World, The Life of David Brainerd, which served to inspire thousands of missionaries throughout the 19th century, and Religious Affections, which many Reformed Evangelicals still read today.

An uproar in 1950 led the investigation of The Life of Wu Xun, a film about a 19th century beggar who raised money to educate the poor.

* " For the Term of His Natural Life " by Marcus Clarke is a 19th Century novel dealing with the main characters deportation to the Port Arthur penal colony in Hobart, Australia in 1830.

Life changed very little in Sandhurst until the 19th century when large sections of land were sold for the building of the Royal Military College, which moved from Marlow in 1812.

Dalbys Carminative, Daffy's Elixir and Turlingtons Balsam of Life bottles dating to the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Artur Schnabel ’ s book My Life and Music vividly depicts his own experience along this lines, which took place in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the late 19th century.

* Life in 19th century Cockermouth and the Cragg Family

Notable English works of this genre from the 19th century include The Ups and Downs of Life ( 1867 ) by Edward Sellon and My Secret Life by " Walter ".

* Anders Lie, Claes Tingvall, Maria Krafft, and Anders Kullgren, " The Effectiveness of ESC ( Electronic Stability Control ) in Reducing Real Life Crashes and Injuries ," of the 19th Enhanced Safety of Vehicles Conference, 2005

As evidence for the obsession for talking about sex, he highlights the publication of the book My Secret Life, anonymously written in the late 19th century and detailing the sex life of a Victorian gentleman.

* Berg, Mary G. " Writing for her Life: The Essays of Clorinda Matto de Turner ", in Reinterpreting the Spanish American Essay: Women Writers of the 19th and 20th Centuries.

Life of leisure: a yangban man resting during a hunt, early 19th century.

Daily Life in the Kingdom of the Kongo: 16th to 19th centuries.

** Plutarch's Life of Coriolanus – 19th century English translation by Aubrey Stewart and George Long

* 19th Annual Canada Life CN Tower Climb for WWF-Canada ( April 16 and 18, 2009 ).

This chapter is a critical biography within the novel, a book within a book, about the Russian 19th century writer Chernyshevsky-Lenin's favorite author-titled The Life of Chernyshevski written by the protagonist.

* Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death by Deborah Blum, Penguin Press, 2006 ; Briefly discusses Home's career and the scientific investigation of his abilities, in the larger context of the 19th century and the scientific inquiry into life beyond death.

The Fellowship of the New Life was a British organization in the 19th century, most famous for a splinter group, the Fabian Society.

The Bishops Lydeard Mill and Rural Life Museum is housed in a building which dates from the 18th century, and was extended in the early 19th century with the addition of a millhouse.

By the time the Marxes made their first movie, they were major stars with sharply honed skills, and when Groucho was relaunched to stardom on You Bet Your Life, he had already been performing successfully for half a century.

According to the Life of Saint Gildas, written in the early 12th century by Caradoc of Llancarfan, Arthur is said to have killed Gildas ' brother Hueil and to have rescued his wife Gwenhwyfar from Glastonbury.

The earliest report of a monster associated with the vicinity of Loch Ness appears in the Life of St. Columba by Adomnán, written in the 7th century.

Morgan first appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Vita Merlini ( The Life of Merlin ) in the 12th century.

* The World is Bound with Secret Knots: The Life and Works of Athanasius Kircher: A survey of the fields of study, writings and inventions of 17th century Jesuit polymath who was the founder of the Museum Kircherianum in Rome

In the 20th century the traditions of Russian opera were developed by many composers including Sergei Rachmaninoff in his works The Miserly Knight and Francesca da Rimini, Igor Stravinsky in Le Rossignol, Mavra, Oedipus rex, and The Rake's Progress, Sergei Prokofiev in The Gambler, The Love for Three Oranges, The Fiery Angel, Betrothal in a Monastery, and War and Peace ; as well as Dmitri Shostakovich in The Nose and Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, Edison Denisov in L ' écume des jours, and Alfred Schnittke in Life with an Idiot and Historia von D. Johann Fausten.

Other 21st century British science fiction shows have included the time travel drama Life on Mars, its sequel Ashes to Ashes, Being Human, Eleventh Hour and Primeval on ITV.

The 14th century ' Life of Saint Piran ', probably written at Exeter Cathedral, is a complete copy of an earlier Irish life of Saint Ciarán of Saighir, with different parentage and a different ending that takes into account Piran's works in Cornwall, and especially details of his death and the movements of his Cornish shrine ; thus " excising the passages which speak of his burial at Saighir " ( Doble ).

* Segismundo, 21st century hero of the dramatic novel " United States of Banana " by Giannina Braschi, based on Calderón de la Barca's Life is a Dream.

( 1964 ) The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan .</ REF > Sake production was a government monopoly for a long time, but in the 10th century, temples and shrines began to brew sake, and they became the main centers of production for the next 500 years.

Out of Step: An Unquiet Life in the 20th century ( 1987 ).

Cuthbert meets Ælfflæd of Whitby on Coquet Island, Bede's Life of Cuthbert, 12th century

The Incorruptibility | incorrupt body of Cuthbert from Bede's Life of Cuthbert, 12th century

The earliest extant use of the term monastērion is by the 1st century AD Jewish philosopher Philo in On The Contemplative Life, ch.

Fabius ' history provided a basis for the early books of Livy's Ab Urbe Condita, which he wrote inLatin, and for several Greek-language histories of Rome, including Dionysius of Halicarnassus's Roman Antiquities, written during the late 1st century BC, and Plutarch's early 2nd century Life of Romulus.

The novel Imitation of Life continues to be highly controversial, as some read it as heavy-handed stereotyping, while others see it as a more subtle and subversive satire of and commentary on race, sex, and class in early 20th century America.

Unlike Columba, Kentigern, the supposed apostle to the Britons of the Clyde, is a shadowy figure and Jocelyn of Furness's 12th century Life is late and of doubtful authenticity though Jackson believed that Jocelyn's version might have been based on an earlier Cumbric original.

Plutarch, in his Life of the Roman general Aemilius Paulus, records that the victor over Macedon, when he beheld the statue, “ was moved to his soul, as if he had seen the god in person ,” while the 1st century AD Greek orator Dio Chrysostom declared that a single glimpse of the statue would make a man forget all his earthly troubles.