Charlemagne & France
Subtitle: a thousand years of mythology
By: Robert Morrissey ; translated by Catherine Tihanyi.
Series: The Laura Shannon series in French medieval studies
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Notre Dame, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 391
Subjects: Charlemagne, Emperor, 742-814 -- Influence.; Charlemagne, Emperor, 742-814 -- Legends -- History and criticism.; Charlemagne, Emperor, 742-814 -- Romances -- History and criticism.; Charlemagne, Emperor, 742-814 -- In literature.; Civilization, Medieval.; Holy Roman Empire -- Kings and rulers -- Biography.
Genres: Legends; Romances; Biography.
Other titles: Charlemagne and France
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.