Carlo Magno e san Giacomo tra agiografia e storia
Among the Charlemagne's deeds, which have passed into legend, the expedition to Spain in 778 underwent an epic rewrite of the historical defeat, suffered by the Frankish rearguard at Roncevaux Pass because of a Basque ambush. The raid is transformed into an episode of a sevenyears war fought by...
| Subtitles: | Charlemagne and St. James between hagiography and history |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | Italian |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2015
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Studi e materiali di storia delle religioni
Year: 2015, Volume: 81, Issue: 2, Pages: 506-526 |
| Further subjects: | B
Agiografia
B Saghe islandesi B Hagiography B SPANISH history B Carlo Magno B Manuscripts B Chansons de geste B Charlemagne, Emperor, 742-814 B Christians B Icelandic Sagas B Sagas B Giacomo il Maggiore B Charlemagne B James the Greater |
| Summary: | Among the Charlemagne's deeds, which have passed into legend, the expedition to Spain in 778 underwent an epic rewrite of the historical defeat, suffered by the Frankish rearguard at Roncevaux Pass because of a Basque ambush. The raid is transformed into an episode of a sevenyears war fought by Charlemagne against the Saracens. In the Codex Calixtinus, a collection preserving the earliest witness of the Liber sancti Iacobi, the topic of Charlemagne's expedition to Spain is linked to the unveiling of St James' shrine in Galicia. Thus, the Frankish king becomes the defender, who released the tomb of the Apostle from the unfaithful pagans, and the Apostle, venerable as Matamoros, grants the victory of the Christian army over the Saracens. The Codex Calixtinus became widely known in Europe and apparently in Iceland, likely also through circulation of abridged versions (libelli), containing just parts of the Liber sancti Iacobi. The Codex Scardensis, written in Iceland about the end of the fourteenth century and originally preserved in the church of Skarð, shows an outstanding collectanea of hagiographic writings in vernacular, and presents many literary borrowings from the Codex Calixtinus in the Saga about the Apostle James the Greater. (English) |
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| ISSN: | 2611-8742 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Studi e materiali di storia delle religioni
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