Week 7: Hrabanus Maurus: De rerum naturis.

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The Light Green areas were lands held by Charlemagne in 771. The Dark Green are lands acquired by Charlemagne by 800.

(map found at http://pages.prodigy.com/charlemagne/)

Mainz, where Hrabanus was born and where he died, is located on the Rhine river, just west of Frankfurt

Fulda is located in central Germany, in the Fulda River valley (it is about 100 kilometers east of Frankfurt).

You can see both of these cities more clearly in the map below, which shows the division of Charlemagne's kingdom after his death, beginning with the treaty of Verdun in 843.