Updated 1/22/16 2 ARTICLES "Introduction," in The Cultural History of Western Empires in the Midd... more Updated 1/22/16 2 ARTICLES "Introduction," in The Cultural History of Western Empires in the Middle Ages, ed. Matthew Gabriele (Bloomsbury), in preparation. "Historiography and Apocalyptic Reform in the Monasteries of the Eleventh-Century West," in Apocalypse and Reform in the Early Middle Ages, ed. James T. Palmer and Matthew Gabriele (Routledge), forthcoming.
The Legend of Charlemagne in the Middle Ages, 2008
S everal twelfth-century sources embody an idealized image of chivalry, pilgrimage, kingship, and... more S everal twelfth-century sources embody an idealized image of chivalry, pilgrimage, kingship, and crusading to establish historical precedents for those ideas. Many of these types of texts depict Charlemagne as the idealized military leader of Christianity-greatest of Christian warriors and defender of Christendom. 1 What I propose to do in this chapter is to look at how Charlemagne's perceived connection to Jerusalem and his Spanish campaigns were used to transform his legend into the image of a crusader. This phenomenon is perhaps most dramatically illustrated in Ekkehard of Aura, who reported a story that circulated around the time of the First Crusade, in which Charlemagne actually rose from the dead to lead the campaign to the Holy Land. 2 Miraculous stories concerning Charlemagne's deeds from beyond the grave were not new. In the early eleventh century, Otto III had Charlemagne's tomb at Aachen opened, and the Italian count Otto of Lomello later reported that Charlemagne was found sitting on his throne, crowned, scepter in hand, while his hair and fingernails continued to grow. 3 However, when war became, as Colin Morris describes it, "a virtue," it was not long before the twelfthand thirteenth-century legendary deeds of Charlemagne became an exemplar of that virtue. 4 The representation of Charlemagne as defender of the church and proto-crusader actually predates the launching of the crusades to the M. Gabriele et al. (eds.
Jennifer Davis, Charlemagne’s Practice of Empire. Cambridge, UK, and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Pp. xix, 531; 2 maps, 2 tables, and 3 graphs. $155. ISBN: 978-1-107-07699-0
Speculum, 2017
The Charlemagne Legend in Medieval Latin Texts
This book explores the multiplicity of ways in which the Charlemagne legend was recorded in Latin... more 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.
Charlemagne in Medieval East Central Europe (ca. 800 to ca. 1200)
Canadian Slavonic Papers, 2011
Abstract During the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the legend of Charlemagne gained widespread p... more Abstract During the eleventh and twelfth centuries, the legend of Charlemagne gained widespread popularity, as the figure of the emperor became a model for rulers and crusaders. However, at the same time, there was no equivalent cult of the emperor in East Central Europe, despite intensive intellectual exchange with those parts of the continent in which Charlemagne served as the highest political ideal. The examination of two early texts—the chronicles of Gallus Anonymus and Cosmas of Prague—reveals that although not completely absent from the chroniclers’ repertoire of historical parallels and examples, Charlemagne was either mentioned simply as a chronological marker or (especially in the Chronicle of Cosmas of Prague) given attributes that do not appear in any other contemporary works and which suggest a local reinterpretation of his role in history and of his personality. Additionally, this is confirmed by an examination of a slightly later text—the Gesta Hungarorum, the earliest surviving work of medieval historiography in Hungary.
17.04.06 , Bailey and Giles, eds., Charlemagne and his Legend in Early Spanish Literature and Historiography
The Medieval Review, 2017
The Eastern Mediterranean Frontier of Latin Christendom
Contents: Introduction Bibliography Part One Travel, Trade and Economy: Coastal shipping and navi... more Contents: Introduction Bibliography Part One Travel, Trade and Economy: Coastal shipping and navigation in the Mediterranean, Michel Balard The geographical considerations of the galley navigation in the Mediterranean, John H. Pryor Byzantine Crete in the navigation and trade networks of Venice and Genoa, David Jacoby. Part Two Migration and Colonization: The Venetians in the Black Sea: a general survey, Michael E. Martin Italian migration and settlement in Latin Greece: the impact on the economy, David Jacoby The Genoese in the Aegean, Michel Balard Cyprus and the beginnings of modern sugar cane plantations and plantation slavery, Sidney M. Greenfield. Part Three The Crusades and the Christian East: The impact of the crusades on Eastern Christianity, Philip K. Hitti The Armenian Church and the papacy at the time of the crusades, Bernard Hamilton The Chronicle of Matthew of Edessa: apocalypse, the First Crusade and the Armenian diaspora, Christopher MacEvitt Colonization and the cre...
The Legend of Charlemagne
The Crusader Armies: 1099–1187. By SteveTibble. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2018. Pp. xvi, 402. $35.00.)
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Charlemagne. By Johannes Fried. Translated by Peter Lewis. Harvard University Press. 2016. xi + 673pp. £31.95
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