The Charlemagne Legend In Medieval Latin Texts

Author : William J. Purkis
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843844486
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Charlemagne Legend in Medieval Latin Texts written by William J. Purkis and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on the various manifestations of Charlemagne and his legends.

Author : Phillipa Hardman
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843844729
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Legend of Charlemagne in Medieval England written by Phillipa Hardman and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2017 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-length examination of the medieval Charlemagne tradition in the literature and culture of medieval England, from the Chanson de Roland to Caxton.

Author : Einhard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life of Charlemagne written by Einhard and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843845830
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charlemagne in Medieval German and Dutch Literature written by Albrecht Classen and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2021 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legend of the Frankish emperor Charlemagne is widespread through the literature of the European Middle Ages. This book offers a detailed and critical analysis of how this myth emerged and developed in medieval German and Dutch literatures, bringing to light the vast array of narratives either idealizing, if not glorifying, Charlemagne as a political and religious leader, or, at times, criticizing or even ridiculing him as a pompous and ineffectual ruler. The motif is traced from its earliest origins in chronicles, in the Kaiserchronik, through the Rolandslied and Der Stricker's Karl der Große, to his recasting as a saint in the Zürcher Buch vom Heiligen Karl.

Author : Björn Weiler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009006223
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paths to Kingship in Medieval Latin Europe, c. 950–1200 written by Björn Weiler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-14 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval Europe was a world of kings, but what did this mean to those who did not themselves wear a crown? How could they prevent corrupt and evil men from seizing the throne? How could they ensure that rulers would not turn into tyrants? Drawing on a rich array of remarkable sources, this engaging study explores how the fears and hopes of a ruler's subjects shaped both the idea and the practice of power. It traces the inherent uncertainty of royal rule from the creation of kingship and the recurring crises of royal successions, through the education of heirs and the intrigue of medieval elections, to the splendour of a king's coronation, and the pivotal early years of his reign. Monks, crusaders, knights, kings (and those who wanted to be kings) are among a rich cast of characters who sought to make sense of and benefit from an institution that was an object of both desire and fear.

Author : Helen Fulton
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843846683
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charlemagne in the Norse and Celtic Worlds written by Helen Fulton and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captured here for the first time is the richness of the Charlemagne tradition in medieval Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Wales and Ireland and its coherence as a series of adaptations of Old French chansons de geste

Author : Einhard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780598804112
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life of Charlemagne, the Latin Text written by Einhard and published by . This book was released on with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jane E. Everson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843846713
Total Pages : 409 pages
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Download or read book Charlemagne in Italy written by Jane E. Everson and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the many depictions of Charlemagne in the Italian tradition of chivalric narratives in verse and prose. Chivalric tales and narratives concerning Charlemagne were composed and circulated in Italy from the early fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth century (and indeed subsequently flourished in forms of popular theatre which continue today). But are they history or fiction? Myth or fact? Cultural memory or deliberate appropriation? Elite culture or popular entertainment? Oral or written, performed or read? This book explores the many depictions of the Emperor in the Italian tradition of chivalric narratives in verse and prose. Beginning in the age of Dante with the earliest tales composed for Italians in the hybrid language of Franco-Italian, which draw inspiration from the French tradition of Charlemagne narratives, the volume considers the compositions of anonymous reciters of cantari and the prose versions of the Florentine Andrea da Barberino, before discussing the major literary contributions to the genre by Luigi Pulci, Matteo Maria Boiardo and Ludovico Ariosto. The focus throughout is on the ways in which the portrait of Charlemagne, seen as both Emperor and King of France, is persistently ambiguous, affected by the contemporary political situation and historical events such as invasion and warfare. He emerges through these texts in myriad guises, from positive and admirable to negative and despised.

Author : Paul Webster
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351723006
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Dukes of Normandy and the Kings of England by the Anonymous of Béthune written by Paul Webster and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-02-24 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first quarter of the thirteenth century, an anonymous Flemish writer set in writing, in Old French, a chronicle of Normandy, England, Flanders and northern France. It ranged from the arrival of the Vikings in Normandy to the early years of the reign of King Henry III of England, ending with an account of the translation of the relics of St Thomas Becket to their magnificent new shrine in Canterbury Cathedral in 1220. Along the way, it adopted and formed part of a tradition of writing of the history of the dukes of Normandy and kings of England, a tradition which had developed in Latin in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and then continued in Old French. The work is famous for vibrant and informed description of the reign of King John, in particular the period of baronial reaction, Magna Carta, ensuing civil war and the nearly-successful invasion of England by Louis, heir to the kingdom of France. Flanders supplied troops to both sides, and this Flemish author sees these events in close detail, and from the Flemish, not the French or English, point of view. He may himself have been an eyewitness, directly involved, but if not he would have known many who had fought and died in this conflict. Janet Shirley’s translation of this chronicle, the first into English, brings the work of the Anonymous of Béthune to a new audience in this volume, accompanied by an introduction and historical notes by Paul Webster.

Author : Sebastian Scholz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110757303
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creative Selection between Emending and Forming Medieval Memory written by Sebastian Scholz and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karl Valentin once asked: "How can it be that only as much happens as fits into the newspaper the next day?" He focussed on the problem that information of the past has to be organised, arranged and above all: selected and put into form in order to be perceived as a whole. In this sense, the process of selection must be seen as the fundamental moment – the “Urszene” – of making History. This book shows selection as highly creative act. With the richness of early medieval material it can be demonstrated that creative selection was omnipresent and took place even in unexpected text genres. The book demonstrates the variety how premodern authors dealt with "unimportant", unpleasant or unwanted past. It provides a general overview for regions and text genres in early medieval Europe.