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Book SynopsisThere 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 of inquiry by bringing together innovative trends that cross disciplinary boundaries. This collection expands the geographical frontiers, and extends the chronological scope beyond the Middle Ages from the heart of Carolingian Europe to Spain, England, and Iceland. The Charlemagne found here is one both familiar and strange and one who is both celebrated and critiqued. Contributors are Jada Bailey, Cullen Chandler, Carla Del Zotto, William Diebold, Christopher Flynn, Ana Grinberg, Elizabeth Melick, Jace Stuckey, and Larissa Tracy.
Table of ContentsList of Figures Abbreviations Contributors Introduction Jace Stuckey part 1: Remembering and Imagining Charlemagne’s Legacy in Carolingian and Post-Carolingian Europe 1 Charlemagne: Already a Legend Cullen Chandler 2 Imagined Crusades: The Legend of Charlemagne and the East Jace Stuckey part 2: Charlemagne as Exemplar and the ‘Other’ in the High and Later Middle Ages 3 Charlemagne on the Roaed to Santiago in the Liber Sancit Jacobi and the Karlamagnús Saga Carla Del Zotto 4 The Representation of Charlemagne in the Speculum Historiale of Vincent of Beauvais Christopher P. Flynn 5 Le Livre de Charlemaine: The Emperor Charlemagne as an Exemplar for Anglo-French Kings in the Fifteenth Century Jade Bailey part 3: Cross-Cultural Representations in Literature: Religion and Identity 6 Intimate Contacts of Charlemagne in Spain Mainet as Portrait of an Enemy as a Young Man Ana Grinberg 7 Charlemagne and the Saracens Reimagining the Sequence of Aggression in Three Middle English Romances Elizabeth Ponder Melick 8 “Charlemagne, King Arthur and Contested National Identity in English Romances” Larissa Tracy 9 A Multicultural Charlemagne for the 21st Century The Exhibition Ex oriente: Isaak und der weisse Elefant (Aachen, 2003) William J. Diebold Select Bibliography Index
