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Manchester Medieval Sources Series series advisers Rosemary Horrox and Janet L. Nelson This series aims to meet a growing need amongst students and teachers of medieval history for translations of key sources that are directly usable in students’ own work. It provides texts central to medieval studies courses and focuses upon the diverse cultural and social as well as political conditions that affected the functioning of all levels of medieval society. The basic premise of the series is that translations must be accompanied by sufficient introductory and explanatory material, and each volume, therefore, includes a comprehensive guide to the sources’ interpretation, including discussion of critical linguistic problems and an assessment of the most recent research on the topics being covered. already published in the series Simon Barton and Richard Fletcher The world of El Cid: Chronicles of the Spanish reconquest J. A. 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Warner Manchester University Press Manchester and New York distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave Warner_Prelim 3 22/2/01, 8:44 am Copyright © David Warner 2001 The right of David Warner to be identified as the editor of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Published by Manchester University Press Altrincham Street, Manchester M1 7JA, UK http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data applied for 93-50558 ISBN 0 7190 4925 3 hardback ISBN 0 7190 4926 1 paperback First published 2001 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 The publisher has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for any external or third-party internet websites referred to in this book, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Typeset in Monotype Bell by Koinonia Ltd, Manchester Bell & Bain Ltd, Glasgow Warner_Prelim 4 22/2/01, 8:44 am CONTENTS Series editor’s foreword page vii Abbreviations ix Family trees xiii Maps xix Introduction: Thietmar, bishop and chronicler 1 The Chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg Book one 66 Book two 89 Book three 126 Book four 149 Book five 205 Book six 235 Book seven 306 Book eight 361 Bibliography 386 Index 401 Warner_Prelim 5 22/2/01, 8:44 am vi ABBREVIATIONS Warner_Prelim 6 22/2/01, 8:44 am ABBREVIATIONS vii SERIES EDITOR’S FOREWORD Shortage of suitably rich and reflective material often makes it difficult to access the mentalities of an earlier medieval society. But in the case of Ottonian Germany, Thietmar of Merseburg, an idiosyncratic yet wide-ranging and highly conscientious chronicler, offers a wealth of entrées and insights into his world but also – belying the notion that introspection comes only with the long twelfth century – himself. David Warner’s fine translation of Thietmar’s stylish Latin now opens the entrées wide to new audiences. His substantial Introduction sets the work in social and cultural as well as political contexts, making sense of authorial concerns that blended the public with the private, the genuinely altruistic with the intensely self- and kin-centred. The Manchester Medieval Sources Series has never confused accessibility with dumbing down: readers need the whole text. The Press has been admirably undeterred by the scale of Thietmar’s work, since in this case scale is of the essence. Thanks not only to Thietmar’s literary talents and the range and variegated interest of his themes, but also to David Warner’s expertise as translator and historian, this large book will surely get and keep readers’ rapt attention. It reveals, like no other work of its place and period, the textures and contexts of the Ottonians’ regime, as the activities of the German rulers and their contemporaries, and their dealings with Slav and Scandinavian neighbours, enable Thietmar, and his readers, to make their own analyses and comparisons. With this volume, Germany, hitherto insufficiently represented in the series’ European pano- rama, takes its full place. Thietmar’s perspective, personal as it is, also embraces, and is representative of, Europe’s early eleventh-century culture. Janet L. Nelson King’s College London Warner_Prelim 7 22/2/01, 8:44 am viii ABBREVIATIONS Warner_Prelim 8 22/2/01, 8:44 am ABBREVIATIONS ix LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS Adalbold Waitz, G. (ed.) 1841 Adam Schmeidler, B. (ed.) 1917 Ado Dubois, J. and Renaud, G. (eds) 1984 AE Pertz, G. (ed.) 1839a AfD Archiv für Diplomatik AfKg Archiv für Kulturgeschichte AH Waitz, G. (ed.) 1878 Alpert Pertz, G. (ed.) 1841a an. anno AQ Pertz, G. (ed.) 1839 Arnold Arnold of St Emmeram, De miraculis et memoria beati Emmerammi libri duo, Migne, J. P. (ed.), PL, vol. 141, cols 971–1090 Arnulf Bethmann, L. C. and Wattenback, W. (eds) 1848 AS Waitz, G. (ed.) 1844 Aug., Civ. Dei Dombart, B. and Kalb, A. (eds) 1955 Aug., Div. Quaest. Matzenbecher, A. (ed.) 1975 Aug., Enn. Ps. 63 Augustine, Ennarratio in Psalmum, vol. 63. Migne, J. P. (ed.), PL, vol. 36, cols 759–72 Aug., Ep. Goldbacher, A. (ed.) 1904 BdLg Blätter für deutsche Landesgeschichte B Mt S Zuchetti, G. (ed.) 1820 BG Böhmer, J. F. 1971 BM Böhmer, J. F. 1950 BO Böhmer, J. F. 1967 BU Böhmer, J. F. 1956 Bon., Ep Tangle, M. (ed.) 1955 Brun, Ep Karwasin’ska, J. (ed.) 1969 Brun, VA Karwasin’ska, J. (ed.) 1973 Carm. Cant. Strecker, K. (ed.) 1926 CCL Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina Const. Weiland, L. (ed.) 1893 Cont. Reg. Kurze, F. (ed.) 1890 CSEL Corpus scriptorum ecclesiasticorum Latinorum D, DD Diploma, Diplomata DA Deutsches Archiv DBI Dizionario biografico degli Italiani D H I Sickel, T. (ed.) 1879–84 D H II Bresslau, H. et al. (eds) 1957 DHP Levillain, P. (ed.) 1994 DMA Dictionary of the Middle Ages Warner_Prelim 9 22/2/01, 8:44 am
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