The Charlemagne legend in medieval Latin texts / / editors, William J. Purkis, Matthew Gabriele

• Pubblicazione: Suffolk : , : Boydell & Brewer, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvii, 241 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 944.0142
• Soggetto topico: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General
• Soggetto geografico: France History To 987; Holy Roman Empire History To 1517
• Soggetto genere / forma: History
• Soggetto non controllato: Byzantium; Charlemagne Legend; Charlemagne; Chronicles; Collective Identities; Crusader; Hagiography; Latin Textual Environments; Legends; Literature; Liturgy; Manifestations; Medieval Latin Texts; Medieval Writers; Middle Ages; Necrophiliac; Political Science; Political Views; Saint; Thirteenth Century; Twelfth Century
• Persona (resp. second.): PurkisWilliam J.; GabrieleMatthew
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Oct 2017).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Charlemagne : a European icon / Marianne Ailes and Philip E. Bennett -- The many Latin lives of Charlemagne / William J. 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 / Sebastián Salvadó -- Rex Parvus or Rex Nobilis? : Charlemagne and the politics of history (and crusading) in Thirteenth-century Iberia / Miguel Dolan Gómez -- Charlemagne in Girona : liturgy, legend and the memory of siege / Jeffrey Doolittle -- 'For the honour of the Blessed Virgin' : the history and legacy of Charles's devotion to Mary in the Gesta Karoli Magni ad Cascassonam et Narbonam / James B. Williams -- Charlemagne the sinner : Charles the Great as avatar of the modern in Petrarch's familiares 1.4 / Andrew J. Roming -- The quattrocento Charlemagne : Franco-Florentine relations and the politics of an icon / Oren Margolis.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book explores the multiplicity of ways in which the Charlemagne legend was recorded in Latin texts of the central and later Middle Ages, moving beyond some of the earlier canonical "raw materials", such as Einhard's Vita Karoli Magni, to focus on productions of the eleventh to fifteenth centuries. A distinctive feature of the volume's coverage is the diversity of Latin textual environments and genres that the contributors examine in their work, including chronicles, liturgy and pseudo-histories, as well as apologetical treatises and works of hagiography and literature. Perhaps most importantly, the book examines the "many lives" that Charlemagne was believed to have lived by successive generations of medieval Latin writers, for whom he was not only a king and an emperor but also a saint, a crusader, and, indeed, a necrophiliac.Contributors: Matthew Gabriele, Jace Stuckey, Sebastián Salvadó, Miguel Dolan Gómez, Jeffrey Doolittle, James Williams, Andrew J. Romig, Oren J. Margolis.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Charlemagne legend in Medieval Latin texts
• ISBN: 1-78204-853-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910162852303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Bristol studies in medieval cultures. . 1757-2150