The Legend of Charlemagne : : Envisioning Empire in the Middle Ages / / edited by Jace Stuckey.

There are few historical figures in the Middle Ages that cast a larger shadow than Charlemagne. This volume brings together a collection of studies on the Charlemagne legend from a wide range of fields, not only adding to the growing corpus of work on this legendary figure, but opening new avenues o...

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Superior document:Explorations in Medieval Culture ; 15
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden;, Boston : : BRILL,, 2022.
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Explorations in Medieval Culture ; 15.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Charlemagne: already a legend / Cullen Chandler
  • Imagined Crusades: the legend of Charlemagne and the East / Jace Stuckey
  • Charlemagne on the Roaed to Santiago in the Liber Sancit Jacobi and the Karlamagnús Saga / Carla Del Zotto
  • The representation of Charlemagne in the Speculum Historiale of Vincent of Beauvais / Christopher P. Flynn
  • Le Livre de Charlemaine: the Emperor Charlemagne as an exemplar for Anglo-French kings in the fifteenth century / Jade Bailey
  • Intimate contacts of Charlemagne in Spain: Mainet as portrait of an enemy as a young man / Ana Grinberg
  • Charlemagne and the Saracens: reimagining the sequence of aggression in three Middle English Romances / Elizabeth Ponder Melick
  • "Charlemagne, King Arthur and contested national identity in English Romances" / Larissa Tracy
  • A multicultural Charlemagne for the 21st century: the exhibition Ex oriente: Isaak und der weisse Elefant (Aachen, 2003) / William J. Diebold.