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  • Publisher:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Publication date:
    25 October 2017
    21 October 2016
    ISBN:
    9781782048534
    9781843844488
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    • Subjects:
    Literature, Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature
    Series:
    Bristol Studies in Medieval Cultures
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature
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    Bristol Studies in Medieval Cultures
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    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.

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