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Karolus Magnus - alter Aeneas, alter Martinus, alter Iustinus: Zu Intention und Datierung des 'Aachener Karlsepos'.(Review)
By Christine Ratkowitsch. (Wiener Studien, Beiheft 24. Arbeiten zur mittel- und neulateinischen Philologie, 4.). Pp. 96. Vienna: Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1997. OS 358 (paper). 3 7001 2635 2
After decades of relative neglect as an historical source, the poem that Dummler titled Karolus Magnus et Leo Papa moved to the forefront of discussion of the prehistory and ideology of the imperial coronation of 800 when Beumann argued for composition at Paderborn in 799. The generally accepted view today is that its 536 lines are merely a fragment of a much longer poem, composed at Aachen after Charlemagne's return from Rome. To extensive use of the Aeneid and …
