An Empire of Memory : The Legend of Charlemagne, the Franks, and Jerusalem before the First Crusade

xii, 200pp. Black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles. In its original dust jacket. In as new condition throughout. Uses the legend of Charlemagne, an often overlooked current in early medieval thought, to look at how the contours of the relationship between East and West moved across centuries, particularly in the period leading up to the First Crusade.