Comprehensive survey of the legend of Charlemagne in the medieval
German-speaking world. The legend of the Frankish emperor
Charlemagne is widespread through the literature of the European
Middle Ages. This book offers a detailed and critical analysis of
how this myth emerged and developed in medieval German and Dutch
literatures, bringing to light the vast array of narratives either
idealizing, if not glorifying, Charlemagne as a political and
religious leader, or, at times, criticizing or even ridiculing him
as a pompous and ineffectual ruler. The motif is traced from its
earliest origins in chronicles, in the Kaiserchronik, through the
Rolandslied and Der Stricker's Karl der Grosse, to his recasting as
a saint in the Zurcher Buch vom Heiligen Karl.
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