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This book explores the multiplicity of ways in which the Charlemagne legend was recorded in Latin texts of the central and later Middle Ages, moving beyond some of the earlier canonical "raw materials", such as Einhard's Vita Karoli Magni, to focus on productions of the eleventh to fifteenth centuries. A distinctive feature of the volume's coverage is the diversity of Latin textual environments and genres that the contributors examine in their work, including chronicles, liturgy and pseudo-histories, as well as apologetical treatises and works of hagiography and literature. Perhaps most importantly, the book examines the "many lives" that Charlemagne was believed to have lived by successive generations of medieval Latin writers, for whom he was not only a king and an emperor but also a saint, a crusader, and, indeed, a necrophiliac.

Contributors: Matthew Gabriele, Jace Stuckey, Sebastián Salvadó, Miguel Dolan Gómez, Jeffrey Doolittle, James Williams, Andrew J. Romig, Oren J. Margolis.

Charlemagne, --- France --- Holy Roman Empire --- History --- Karol Wielki, --- Karl --- Carolus Magnus, --- Shārlmān, --- Charles the Great, --- Karl Velikiĭ, --- Carlo Magno, --- Carlos Magno, --- Karolus Magnus, --- Karl the Great, --- Carlomagno, --- Karl den store, --- شارلمان، --- To 1517 --- Charlemagne --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General. --- Byzantium. --- Charlemagne Legend. --- Charlemagne. --- Chronicles. --- Collective Identities. --- Crusader. --- Hagiography. --- Latin Textual Environments. --- Legends. --- Literature. --- Liturgy. --- Manifestations. --- Medieval Latin Texts. --- Medieval Writers. --- Middle Ages. --- Necrophiliac. --- Political Science. --- Political Views. --- Saint. --- Thirteenth Century. --- Twelfth Century.