The Charlemagne Legend in Medieval Latin Texts

William J. Purkis, Matthew Gabriele

Essays on the various manifestations of Charlemagne and his legends.

Introduction: The Many Latin Lives of Charlemagne - William PurkisFrankish Kingship, Political Exegesis and the Ghost of Charlemagne in the Diplomas of King Philip I of Francia - Matthew GabrieleThe Twelfth-Century Vita Karoli and the Making of a Royal Saint - Jace StuckeyPerforming Sacrality: The Liturgical Portrait of Frederick Barbarossa's Charlemagne - Sebastian SalvadoRex Parvus or Rex Nobilis?: Charlemagne and the Politics of History (and Crusading) in Thirteenth-Century Iberia - Miguel GomezCharlemagne in Girona: Liturgy, Legend and the Memory of Siege - Jeffrey Doolittle'For the Honor of the Blessed Virgin': The History and Legacy of Charles's Devotion to Mary in the Gesta Karoli Magni ad Carcassonam et Narbonam - James B. WilliamsCharlemagne the Sinner: Charles the Great as Avatar of the Modern in Petrarch's Familiares 1.4 - Andrew RomigThe Quattrocento Charlemagne: Franco-Florentine Relations and the Politics of an Icon - Oren Margolis