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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.
War and nation-building in Widukind of Corvey’s Deeds of the Saxons military conflicts constituted a central function of early medieval rulership and, correspondingly, of the his-toriographical tradition. War and violence in the middle ages have been the subject of various studies, which are above all devoted to warfare and to the army1. War ...
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
Dec 19, 2016 · PDF | On Dec 19, 2016, G.A. Loud published Widukind of Corvey, Deeds of the Saxons, tr., with introduction and notes, by Bernard S. Bachrach and David S. Bachrach | Find, read and cite all...
- Graham Loud
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
Deeds of the Saxons. PleWidukind, 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...
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Historian who lived in the tenth century in the Benedictine Abbey of Corvey, Germany. He was a Saxon, he began in 967 his Res gestae saxonicae sive annalium libri tres, devoted particularly to Henry I and Otto I, as stated in the dedication to Mathilde, Abbess of Quedlinburg.
