An empire of memory : the legend of Charlemagne, the Franks, and Jerusalem before the First Crusade / Matthew Gabriele.
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- Language:
- English
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- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (215 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Using the legend of Charlemagne, an often-overlooked current in early medieval thought, 'An Empire of Memory' looks at how the contours of the relationship between East and West moved across centuries, particularly in the period leading up to the First Crusade.
- Contents:
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- Birth of a Frankish golden age
- The narratives of Charlemagne's journey to the East before 1100
- New Jerusalems and pilgrimage to the East before 1100
- The Franks' imagined empire
- The Franks return to the Holy Land.
- Notes:
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- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 11, 2011).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
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- 0-19-968612-2
- 1-283-21557-8
- 0-19-161640-0
- 9786613215574
- OCLC:
- 922970548
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