Title: Charlemagne & France
First published: 2003
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.
Subjects: 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, history
Places: Holy Roman Empire
People: Charlemagne Emperor (742-814)
LC classification: DC73 .M7513 2003