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  The Charlemagne Legend in Medieval Latin Texts is now available from Boydell and Brewer   This book explores the multiplicity of ways in which the Charlemagne legend was recorded in Latin texts of…

Charlemagne and his Legend in Early Spanish Literature and Historiography is now available from Boydell and Brewer.  Legendary stories involving Charlemagne and his presence in Spain circulated along the pilgrim route to Santiago throughout…

The The volume focuses on the development of narratives in Italy, from the earliest Franco-Italian tales up to the sixteenth century. It is now available to order form Boydell & Brewer Ed. Jane E.…

Now published: this monograph traces the reception of the Charlemagne myth in those two language areas from the early Middle Ages to the sixteenth century, focusing on major literary works that profile this Frankish…

This volume, now at press, contains essays on the manuscript history, translation, transmission, and reception of Charlemagne legends in the vernacular languages of medieval Scandinavia, Ireland, and Wales.   Ed. Helen Fulton (University of Bristol)…

The volume deals with the imagined Charlemagne in a variety of genres in various dialects of continental French, including Walloon and Burgundian, in Anglo-Norman and in Occitan.   Ed. Marianne J. Ailes (University of Bristol) and…

  The Legend of Charlemagne in Medieval England is now available from Boydell and Brewer.   Now also in paperback   The Matter of France, the legendary history of Charlemagne, had a central but…