Frankish Institutions Under Charlemagne Author:Francois Louis Ganshof The most enduring achievements of Charlemagne's reign his institutional and legal innovations, are the subject of this boo. Without some knowledge of what Charlemagne accomplished during his long reign, which lasted from 768 to 814, much of the subsequent history of western Europe is inexplicable, for many of the typical elements of western civ... more »ilization developed under him.« less