Legend of Charlemagne

Jace Stuckey, Ph.D. (2006), University of Florida, is Associate Professor of History at Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia. He has published articles and edited volumes on the Crusades and the Legend of Charlemagne.

• List of FiguresAbbreviationsContributorsIntroductionJace Stuckeypart 1: Remembering and Imagining Charlemagne’s Legacy in Carolingian and Post-Carolingian Europe1 Charlemagne: Already a LegendCullen Chandler2 Imagined Crusades: The Legend of Charlemagne and the EastJace Stuckeypart 2: Charlemagne as Exemplar and the ‘Other’ in the High and Later Middle Ages3 Charlemagne on the Roaed to Santiago in the Liber Sancit Jacobi and the Karlamagnús SagaCarla Del Zotto4 The Representation of Charlemagne in the Speculum Historiale of Vincent of BeauvaisChristopher P. Flynn5 Le Livre de Charlemaine: The Emperor Charlemagne as an Exemplar for Anglo-French Kings in the Fifteenth CenturyJade Baileypart 3: Cross-Cultural Representations in Literature: Religion and Identity6 Intimate Contacts of Charlemagne in SpainMainet as Portrait of an Enemy as a Young ManAna Grinberg7 Charlemagne and the SaracensReimagining the Sequence of Aggression in Three Middle English RomancesElizabeth Ponder Melick8 “Charlemagne, King Arthur and Contested National Identity in English Romances”Larissa Tracy9 A Multicultural Charlemagne for the 21st CenturyThe Exhibition Ex oriente: Isaak und der weisse Elefant (Aachen, 2003)William J. DieboldSelect BibliographyIndex