The Charlemagne Legend in Medieval Latin Texts

Essays on the various manifestations of Charlemagne and his legends.

List of contents

Introduction: The Many Latin Lives of Charlemagne - William Purkis
Frankish Kingship, Political Exegesis and the Ghost of Charlemagne in the Diplomas of King Philip I of Francia - Matthew Gabriele
The Twelfth-Century Vita Karoli and the Making of a Royal Saint - Jace Stuckey
Performing Sacrality: The Liturgical Portrait of Frederick Barbarossa's Charlemagne - Sebastian Salvado
Rex Parvus or Rex Nobilis?: Charlemagne and the Politics of History (and Crusading) in Thirteenth-Century Iberia - Miguel Gomez
Charlemagne in Girona: Liturgy, Legend and the Memory of Siege - Jeffrey Doolittle
'For the Honor of the Blessed Virgin': The History and Legacy of Charles's Devotion to Mary in the Gesta Karoli Magni ad Carcassonam et Narbonam - James B. Williams
Charlemagne the Sinner: Charles the Great as Avatar of the Modern in Petrarch's Familiares 1.4 - Andrew Romig
The Quattrocento Charlemagne: Franco-Florentine Relations and the Politics of an Icon - Oren Margolis

About the author

William J. Purkis, Matthew Gabriele

Product details

• Authors: William J. Purkis
• Assisted by: Matthew Gabriele (Editor), William J Purkis (Editor), William J. Purkis (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.10.2016
• EAN: 9781843844488
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-448-8
• No. of pages: 260
• Dimensions: 149 mm x 224 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 443 g
• Series: Bristol Studies in Medieval Cu
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Frankreich, Europäische Geschichte, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, RELIGION / History, HISTORY / Europe / France, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, Literature - Classics / Criticism