Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Contributors
- General preface Charlemagne: A European Icon
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction The Many Latin Lives of Charlemagne
- 1. Frankish Kingship, Political Exegesis and the Ghost of Charlemagne in the Diplomas of King Philip I of Francia
- 2. The Twelfth-Century Vita Karoli and the Making of a Royal Saint
- 3. Performing Sacrality: The Liturgical Portrait of Frederick Barbarossa's Charlemagne
- 4. Rex Parvus or Rex Nobilis? Charlemagne and the Politics of History (and Crusading) in Thirteenth-Century Iberia
- 5. Charlemagne in Girona: Liturgy, Legend and the Memory of Siege
- 6. ‘For the Honour of the Blessed Virgin’: The History and Legacy of Charles's Devotion to Mary in the Gesta Karoli Magni ad Carcassonam et Narbonam
- 7. Charlemagne the Sinner: Charles the Great as Avatar of the Modern in Petrarch's Familiares 1.4
- 8. The Quattrocento Charlemagne: Franco–Florentine Relations and the Politics of an Icon
- Index
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
Miscellaneous Endmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 October 2017
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Contributors
- General preface Charlemagne: A European Icon
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction The Many Latin Lives of Charlemagne
- 1. Frankish Kingship, Political Exegesis and the Ghost of Charlemagne in the Diplomas of King Philip I of Francia
- 2. The Twelfth-Century Vita Karoli and the Making of a Royal Saint
- 3. Performing Sacrality: The Liturgical Portrait of Frederick Barbarossa's Charlemagne
- 4. Rex Parvus or Rex Nobilis? Charlemagne and the Politics of History (and Crusading) in Thirteenth-Century Iberia
- 5. Charlemagne in Girona: Liturgy, Legend and the Memory of Siege
- 6. ‘For the Honour of the Blessed Virgin’: The History and Legacy of Charles's Devotion to Mary in the Gesta Karoli Magni ad Carcassonam et Narbonam
- 7. Charlemagne the Sinner: Charles the Great as Avatar of the Modern in Petrarch's Familiares 1.4
- 8. The Quattrocento Charlemagne: Franco–Florentine Relations and the Politics of an Icon
- Index
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
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- Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2016