Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vi
4. Note on the Text vii
5. Introduction: From the Early Middle Ages to the Late Sixteenth Century 1
6. 1. The Kaiserchronik: The Emergence of Charlemagne in Chronicle Literature 19
7. 2. Priest Konrad’s Rolandslied and the Glorification of Charlemagne 27
8. 3. The Stricker’s Karl der Große: Adaptation and Innovation of the Myth of Charlemagne in the Thirteenth Century 47
9. 4. The Myth of Charlemagne in Fourteenth-century German Literature: The Karl Meinet Compilation 73
10. 5. Elisabeth von Nassau-Saarbrücken’s Königin Sibille: the Double-edged Sword in the German and the Dutch Prose Version 95
11. 6. Charlemagne in the Dutch and German Tradition of Malagis 129
12. 7. Charlemagne as Saint. The Religious Transmutation of the Early Medieval Myth: the Zürcher Buch vom Heiligen Karl (Fifteenth Century) 155
13. 8. Charlemagne in Middle Dutch and Middle Low German Literature 167
14. Afterword 197
15. Bibliography 203
16. Index 247