REMEMBERING KINGS PAST. Monastic Foundation Legends in Medieval Southern France.

REMENSNYDER, Amy G.

ISBN 10: 0801429544 ISBN 13: 9780801429545

Published by Ithaca/London: Cornell University Press, 1995., 1995

Language: English

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REMEMBERING KINGS PAST. Monastic Foundation Legends in Medieval Southern France.

Publisher

Ithaca/London: Cornell University Press, 1995.

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1995

Language

English

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0801429544

ISBN 13

9780801429545

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Hardcover

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Fine

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The rich legends spun between 1000 and 1250 and by the monks of southwestern France to explain the origins of their communities are the subject of this provocative study. Amy G. Remensnyder explores the monastic foundation legends in all their variety - including forged charters, hagiographic texts, chansons de geste, architecture, and sculpture - to show how such imaginative rememberings of the past worked to affirm the liberty and identity of the abbeys in the present. At the center of the legends stand three kings whom the monks favored as founders: Clovis, Pippin the Short, and, above all, Charlemagne. Remensnyder reveals the many implications of this legendary affection for kings, a startling predilection on the part of monks living in a region where actual rulers hardly ventured during the period.

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Amy G. Remensnyder is Stephen Robert Assistant Professor and Assistant Professor of History at Brown University.

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