Charlemagne & France
a thousand years of mythology
by Robert John Morrissey
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"Charlemagne's persona - derived from a blending of myth, history, and poetry - assumes a constitutional value in France, where for more than ten centuries it was deemed useful to trace national privileges and undertakings back to Charlemagne. His plasticity, Morrissey argues, endows Charlemagne with both legitimizing power and subversive potential.
Part 1 of the book explores a fundamental cycle in the history of Charlemagne's representation, beginning shortly after the great emperor's death and continuing to the end of the sixteenth century. Part 2 discusses the remythologizing of Charlemagne in Renaissance and Reformation France through the late nineteenth century."--BOOK JACKET.
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Kings and rulers, Legends, Civilization, Medieval, History and criticism, Influence, Medieval Civilization, Romances, In literature, Biography, Légendes, Histoire et critique, Romans, nouvelles, Culte, Symbolisme, Rois et souverains, Biographies, Charlemagne, empereur, 742-814, dans la littérature, Mythes politiques, Histoire, Carolingiens, Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.), Literature, Geschichtsschreibung, Mythos, Rezeption, História da frança, História medieval (civilização), Império carolíngio, Charlemagne, emperor, 742-814, Holy roman empire, historyPlaces
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Charlemagne & France: a thousand years of mythology
2003, University of Notre Dame Press
in English
0268022771 9780268022778
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