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Emperor of the World
2013,2017
Overview
Emperor of the World , traces the curious history of the
story of the alliances forged by Charlemagne while visiting
Jerusalem and Constantinople, revealing how the memory of the
Frankish Emperor was manipulated to shape the institutions of
kingship and empire in the High Middle Ages.
The legend incorporates apocalyptic themes such as the
succession of world monarchies at the End of Days and the prophecy
of the Last Roman Emperor. Charlemagne's apocryphal journey to the
East increasingly resembled the eschatological final journey of the
Last Emperor, who was expected to end his reign in Jerusalem after
reuniting the Roman Empire prior to the Last Judgment. Latowsky
finds that the writers who incorporated this legend did so to
support, or in certain cases to criticize, the imperial pretentions
of the regimes under which they wrote. Latowsky removes
Charlemagne's encounters with the East from their long-presumed
Crusading context and shows how a story that began as a rhetorical
commonplace of imperial praise evolved over the centuries as an
expression of Christian Roman universalism.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Subject
/ Charlemagne, Emperor, 742-814 -- Influence
/ Charlemagne, Emperor, 742-814 -- Legends -- History and criticism
/ Charlemagne, Emperor, 742–814
/ East and West -- History -- To 1500
/ Emperor
/ HISTORY
/ Holy Roman Empire -- Kings and rulers
/ Legends
/ Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism
/ Medieval
/ MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE STUDIES
/ To 1500
ISBN
1501748513, 9781501748516, 9780801451485, 0801451485, 9780801467790, 0801467799
