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Widukind of Corvey (c. 925 – after 973; German: Widukind von Corvey) was a medieval Saxon chronicler. His three-volume Res gestae Saxonicae sive annalium libri tres is an important chronicle of 10th-century Germany ( Germania) during the rule of the Ottonian dynasty .
Jun 21, 2020 · Widukind entered the Benedictine monastery Corvey before 942, still under Abbot Volkmar I. According to older research it was assumed that he entered the monastery at the age of 15. His year of birth was therefore set around 925. According to another opinion, Widukind was entered into the Corvey list “as a boy of 6 to 8 years”.
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The Deeds of the Saxons, or Three Books of Annals ( Latin: Res gestae Saxonicae sive annalium libri tres) is a three-volume chronicle of 10th-century Germany, written by Widukind of Corvey. [1] Widukind, proud of his people and history, begins his chronicon, not with Rome, but with a brief synopsis derived from the orally-transmitted history of ...
Widukind, a Saxon, became a monk of the aristocratic Benedictine Abbey of corvey c. 940. There he began his literary career by writing the lives of St. Paul the Hermit and St. Thecla, works that are no longer extant. His major and only surviving work is The Deeds of the Saxons in three books. Source for information on Widukind of Corvey: New ...
Jan 26, 1996 · Widukind of Corvey (d.c. 1004) The Coronation Oath of Otto I (963-973) From the chronicle Rerum Gestarum Saxonicarum ("On the Deeds of the Saxons"), the coronation of the Saxon Otto I
May 13, 2014 · Little is known concerning Widukind (* around 925, † after 973), the historian and monk of Corvey. The author of the Deeds of the Saxons came from the Saxon upper nobility. around 941/2 he entered the Benedictine monastery of Corvey. here he composed numerous hagiographic works, all of which have not survived. around 967/68 he wrote in the same place his Deeds of the Saxons (Rerum Gestarum ...
Dec 16, 2016 · Without the work of Widukind we would know very little about the consolidation of the Ottonian monarchy in tenth-century Germany, and its rise to imperial status. This makes it the more surprising that only now has an English translation of this relatively short work appeared.
