Charlemagne in Medieval German and Dutch Literature

ALBRECHT CLASSEN is University Distinguished Professor of German Studies at the University of Arizona; he received the title of Grand Knight Commander of the Most Noble Order of the Three Lions in 2017, in recognition of his outstanding service to German studies.

This useful and fluently written book fulfills its purpose very well: namely to acquaint English-speaking recipients with this part of the far-reaching medieval European literary tradition of Charlemagne, which is sometimes unfamiliar even to Germanists.

• Introduction: From the Early Middle Ages to the Late Sixteenth Century1. The Kaiserchronik: The Emergence of Charlemagne in Chronicle Literature2. Priest Konrad's Rolandslied and the Glorification of Charlemagne3. The Stricker's Karl der Große: Adaptation and Innovation of the Myth of Charlemagne in the Thirteenth Century4. The Myth of Charlemagne in Fourteenth-Century German Literature:The Karl Meinet Compilation5. Elisabeth von Nassau-Saarbrücken's Königin Sibille: The Double-Edged Sword in the German and the Dutch Prose Version6. Charlemagne in the Dutch and German Tradition of Malagis7. Charlemagne as Saint: The Religious Transmutation of the Early Medieval Myth. The Zürcher Buch vom Heiligen Karl (Fifteenth Century)8. Charlemagne in Middle Dutch and Middle Low German LiteratureAfterwordBibliography