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OverviewBeginning shortly after Charlemagne's death in 814, the inhabitants of his historical empire looked back upon his reign and saw in it an exemplar of Christian universality - Christendom. They mapped contemporary Christendom onto the past and so, during the ninth, tenth, and eleventh centuries, the borders of his empire grew with each retelling, almost always including the Christian East. Although the pull of Jerusalem on the West seems to have been strong during the eleventh century, it had a more limited effect on the Charlemagne legend. Instead, the legend grew during this period because of a peculiar fusion of ideas, carried forward from the ninth century but filtered through the social, cultural, and intellectual developments of the intervening years. Paradoxically, Charlemagne became less important to the Charlemagne legend. The legend became a story about the Frankish people, who believed they had held God's favour under Charlemagne and held out hope that they could one day reclaim their special place in sacred history. Indeed, popular versions of the Last Emperor legend, which spoke of a great ruler who would reunite Christendom in preparation for the last battle between good and evil, promised just this to the Franks. Ideas of empire, identity, and Christian religious violence were potent reagents. The mixture of these ideas could remind men of their Frankishness and move them, for example, to take up arms, march to the East, and reclaim their place as defenders of the faith during the First Crusade. An Empire of Memory uses the legend of Charlemagne, an often-overlooked current in early medieval thought, to look at how the contours of the relationship between East and West moved across centuries, particularly in the period leading up to the First Crusade. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Matthew Gabriele (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Department of Religion and Culture, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.40cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 24.00cm Weight: 0.480kg ISBN: 9780199591442ISBN 10: 019959144 Pages: 216 Publication Date: 24 March 2011 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Looking for Charlemagne PART I: THE FRANKS REMEMBER EMPIRE 1: The Birth of a Frankish Golden Age 2: The Narratives of Charlemagne's Journey to the East before 1100 PART II: JERUSALEM 3: New Jerusalems and Pilgrimage to the East before 1100 PART III: THE FRANKS RECREATE EMPIRE 4: The Franks' Imagined Empire 5: The Franks Return to the Holy Land BibliographyReviewsMatthew Gabriele has made a powerful and convincing attempt to show that the evolution of Charlemagne myths can reveal a Frankish sense of manifest Christian destiny Times Literary Supplement Matthew Gabriele has made a powerful and convincing attempt to show that the evolution of Charlemagne myths can reveal a Frankish sense of manifest Christian destiny Times Literary Supplement the depth of analysis on offer here and its relevance to debates about memory makes this a hugely welcome addition to a growing body of research. Christian Harding, Journal of Ecclesiastical History Author InformationMatthew Gabriele received his Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Berkeley. He has published widely on topics related to Charlemagne, kingship, and religiosity in the eleventh century. He has also co-edited, with Jace Stuckey, an interdisciplinary volume of essays on the medieval legend of Charlemagne entitled The Legend of Charlemagne in the Middle Ages: Power, Faith, and Crusade. His next project investigates how a shift in language signalled a change in how the West understood the relationship between past, present, and future. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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