Charlemagne in Medieval German and Dutch Literature

✍ Scribed by Albrecht Classen

Publisher: D.S.Brewer
Year: 2021
Tongue: English
Leaves: 260
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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 Dutchliteratures, 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 earlest 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. ALBRECHT CLASSEN is University Distinguished Professor of German Studies at the University of Arizona; he received the title of Grand Knight Commander of the Most Noble Order of the Three Lions in 2017, in recognition of his outstanding service to German studies.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover
Contents
Acknowledgements
Note on the Text
Introduction
1 The Kaiserchronik
2 Priest Konrad’s Rolandslied and the Glorification of Charlemagne
3 The Stricker’s Karl der Große
4 The Myth of Charlemagne in Fourteenth-century German Literature
5 Elisabeth von Nassau-Saarbrücken’s Königin Sibille
6 Charlemagne in the Dutch and German Tradition of Malagis
7 Charlemagne as Saint
8 Charlemagne in Middle Dutch and Middle Low German Literature
Afterword
Bibliography
Index

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