Anne A. Latowsky. Emperor of the World: Charlemagne and the Construction of Imperial Authority, 800–1229.
Courtney M. Booker
In 2001, Matthias M. Tischler published his monumental 1,800-page study of the textual transmission and reception Einhard's vita Charlemagne, Einharts “Vita Karoli”: Studien zur Entstehung, Überlieferung und Rezeption. Tischler's work focused chiefly on many manuscript copies (134 extant with a complete text) diminutive courtier's great Suetonian-inflected biography, its various codicological contexts recensions, only then what this widespread diffusion across space time implies about text's myriad readers copyists. her superb new book Emperor World: Charlemagne Construction Imperial Authority, 800–1229, Anne A. Latowsky takes as point departure astute important observation that, popular was in medieval West, it fact single episode within biography that especially captured attention numerous authors between tenth thirteenth centuries. What Einhard...
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