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Dec 25, 2014 · Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Bernard S. Bachrach and David S. Bachrach. Widukind, a monk at the prominent monastery of Corvey in Saxony during the middle third of the tenth century, is known to posterity through his Res gestae Saxonicae, an exceptionally rich account of the Saxon people and the reigns of the first two rulers of ...
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- Widukind of Corvey
- Widukind’S Life
- The Deeds of The Saxons
- Importance of Widukind’S Work
- Dating The Work
- Publication History
Possibly Widukind was a descendant of the Saxon Duke Widukind, the opponent of Charlemagne, because of the similarity of names. 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 arou...
Widukind’s Annals of Saxony consist of three books. Each book has a preface. The prefaces are at the same time dedications and addressed to the abbess Mathilda. The first book in the history of Saxony reports on the early history of the Saxon tribe until the death of Henry the Fowler. The second book describes the events from the elevation of Otto ...
In his work he passed on the ancestral legend of the Saxons and at the same time gave the most vivid testimony to the time of Henry I and Otto I, the latter being the main focus of his work. Widukind is imbued with the greatness and importance of the Saxon tribe in the past and its rulers of its time who rose to become the East Frankish kingdom. Wi...
The exact time of writing the work has long been disputed. The coronation of Otto the Great as emperor in Rome and the founding of the archbishopric of Magdeburg leaves Widukind unmentioned. The conclusion to be drawn from this, that this version was written before 962, does not fit in with the mention of other events and was finally rejected by Ed...
Widukind’s work has been handed down in five manuscripts of the 11th to 16th centuries and was already received by numerous historians in the 10th century and even later. A manuscript of Res gestae saxonicae sive annalium libri tres was first published in Basle in 1532 and is today in the British Library. There are two other surviving manuscripts. ...
Widukind, likely of noble birth, received a thorough education in both biblical and classical texts. When writing the Gestae, Widukind also had available the extensive library at Corvey, with its large collection of ancient texts as well as numerous works from the eighth and ninth centuries.
- Bernard S. Bachrach, David S. Bachrach
- 2014
Dec 16, 2016 · Book Review. 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.
- G.A. Loud
- 2016
Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Bernard S. Bachrach and David S. BachrachWidukind, a monk at the prominent monastery of Corvey in Saxony during ...
Deeds of the Saxons / Widukind of Corvey ; translated with an introduction and notes by Bernard S. Bachrach and David S. Bachrach.
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