Introduction: 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
Bibliography
Matthew 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.
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*
As with all the best exercises in intellectual archaeology,
Gabrieles book raises as many questions as it claims to answer. It
is a monograph in the very best sense of the term, showing how a
field that some might presume mined to exhaustion can still yield
up a rich, albeit highly speculative seam of ore.
*Nicholas Vincent, History*
I really like this book and learned a lot from it... The argument
and research are critical, thorough, and sound.
*Thomas F.X. Noble, The Medieval Review*
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*
This efficiently argued and interesting book is an informed and
thoughtful discussion of the ideas and associations that attached
themselves to the memory of Charlemagne between the reign of his
successor Louis the Pious and the First Crusade.
*Marcus Bull, Crusades*
a bold and interesting argument
*David Rollason, English Historical Review*
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