Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vi
3. List of Illustrations viii
4. Contributors ix
5. General Preface xii
6. Acknowledgements xv
7. List of Abbreviations xvii
8. Introduction
9. The Many Latin Lives of Charlemagne 1
10. 1 Frankish Kingship, Political Exegesis and the Ghost of Charlemagne in the Diplomas of King Philip I of Francia 9
11. 2 The Twelfth-Century Vita Karoli and the Making of a Royal Saint 33
12. 3 Performing Sacrality: The Liturgical Portrait of Frederick Barbarossa’s Charlemagne 59
13. 4 Rex Parvus or Rex Nobilis? Charlemagne and the Politics of History (and Crusading) in Thirteenth-Century Iberia 92
14. 5 Charlemagne in Girona: Liturgy, Legend and the Memory of Siege 115
15. 6 ‘For the Honour of the Blessed Virgin’: The History and Legacy of Charles’s Devotion to Mary in the Gesta Karoli Magni ad Carcassonam et Narbonam 148
16. 7 Charlemagne the Sinner: Charles the Great as Avatar of the Modern in Petrarch’s Familiares 1.4 181
17. 8 The Quattrocento Charlemagne: Franco–Florentine Relations and the Politics of an Icon 203
18. Index 231