LEADER 04298nam 2200721 a 450 001 9910779670103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-5017-4851-3 010 $a0-8014-6778-0 010 $a0-8014-6779-9 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801467790 035 $a(CKB)2550000001038595 035 $a(OCoLC)828736639 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10650186 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000819719 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11436088 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000819719 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10857050 035 $a(PQKB)11723162 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001503907 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138427 035 $a(OCoLC)966765219 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse51848 035 $a(DE-B1597)478285 035 $a(OCoLC)979756134 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801467790 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138427 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10650186 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL681715 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001038595 100 $a20120621d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEmperor of the world$b[electronic resource] $eCharlemagne and the construction of imperial authority, 800-1229 /$fAnne A. Latowsky 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (305 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-50433-4 311 $a0-8014-5148-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCarolingian origins -- Relics from the East -- Benzo of Alba's parallel signs -- In praise of Frederick Barbarossa -- The Emperor's Charlemagne -- "Charlemagne and the East" in France. 330 $aCharlemagne never traveled farther east than Italy, but by the mid-tenth century a story had begun to circulate about the friendly alliances that the emperor had forged while visiting Jerusalem and Constantinople. This story gained wide currency throughout the Middle Ages, appearing frequently in chronicles, histories, imperial decrees, and hagiographies-even in stained-glass windows and vernacular verse and prose. In Emperor of the World, Anne A. Latowsky traces the curious history of this myth, revealing how the memory of the Frankish Emperor was manipulated to shape the institutions of kingship and empire in the High Middle Ages.The legend incorporates apocalyptic themes such as the succession of world monarchies at the End of Days and the prophecy of the Last Roman Emperor. Charlemagne's apocryphal journey to the East increasingly resembled the eschatological final journey of the Last Emperor, who was expected to end his reign in Jerusalem after reuniting the Roman Empire prior to the Last Judgment. Instead of relinquishing his imperial dignity and handing the rule of a united Christendom over to God as predicted, this Charlemagne returns to the West to commence his reign. Latowsky finds that the writers who incorporated this legend did so to support, or in certain cases to criticize, the imperial pretentions of the regimes under which they wrote. New versions of the myth would resurface at times of transition and during periods marked by strong assertions of Roman-style imperial authority and conflict with the papacy, most notably during the reigns of Henry IV and Frederick Barbarossa. Latowsky removes Charlemagne's encounters with the East from their long-presumed Crusading context and shows how a story that began as a rhetorical commonplace of imperial praise evolved over the centuries as an expression of Christian Roman universalism. 606 $aLiterature, Medieval$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAuthority in literature 606 $aEast and West in literature 606 $aEast and West$xHistory$yTo 1500 607 $aHoly Roman Empire$xKings and rulers 615 0$aLiterature, Medieval$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAuthority in literature. 615 0$aEast and West in literature. 615 0$aEast and West$xHistory 676 $a809/.93351 700 $aLatowsky$b Anne Austin$01528508 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779670103321 996 $aEmperor of the world$93772153 997 $aUNINA