Language:
English
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
The Character of David in Judaism, Christianity and Islam; Warrior, Poet, Prophet and King
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2021) 154-187
Keywords:
David, In literature
;
Louis
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Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc., Christian Middle Ages, 600-1500
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History
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French literature History and criticism
;
Jerusalem (Israel) In literature
;
Paris (France) In literature
Abstract:
The paper shows how the late thirteenth and early fourteenth century French chroniclers and hagiographers fashioned Saint Louis’s image after the model of biblical King David, as the pious and godly king of a New Israel – France. Exploring the complex history of the origins of the royal ideology of the Capetian kings, the paper argues that although it undoubtedly echoes the Byzantine imperial ideology, it evolved independently and its origins should be sought more accurately in the Carolingian epoch, in which (from the time of Pepin the Short), David had become an ideal model for the kings of the Franks.
DOI:
10.1163/9789004465978_009
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