Saint Louis as a New David and Paris as a New Jerusalem in Medieval French Hagiographic Literature
J. Pysiak
AbstractThe paper shows how the late thirteenth and early fourteenth century French chroniclers hagiographers fashioned Saint Louis’s image after model of biblical King David, as pious godly king a New Israel – France. Exploring complex history origins royal ideology Capetian kings, argues that although it undoubtedly echoes Byzantine imperial ideology, evolved independently its should be sought more accurately in Carolingian epoch, which (from time Pepin Short), David had become an ideal for kings Franks.
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