Fraternity book

Brotherhood book from the St. Gallen monastery archive .

The fraternity book is the name given to registers of medieval monasteries in which prayer fraternities are recorded. They therefore contain lists of names of the founders and benefactors of a monastery as well as of people who had close spiritual ties with a monastery, so that they were remembered in the monastic prayers. They were often created as early as the 8th century and continued into the 13th century. Necrologies as well as diaries or year books are their successors in many respects. Liber vitae or Liber memorialis are used as medieval names, the term Liber confraternitatis is newer .

The fraternization books are a rich source of personal and linguistic history on the history of the early Middle Ages.

See also

• Brotherhood book of Reichenau Abbey
• Salzburg fraternization book

literature

• Franz Beyerle : The Fratres de Friburch in the St. Gallen fraternization book. In: Schau-ins-Land. Vol. 72, 1954, ZDB -ID 128267-0 , pp. 11-16.
• Christian Folini: Fraternization Book . In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Paulus Piper (Ed.): Libri Confraternitatum Sancti Galli Augiensis Fabariensis (= Monumenta Germaniae Historica . Antiquitates. Necrologia Germaniae. Supplementbd.). Weidmann, Berlin 1884 (reprint. Ibid 2001, ISBN 3-88612-009-0 ), (The fraternization book of St. Gallen with commentary).
• Dieter Geuenich: Fraternization Books , in: Südwestdeutsche Archivalienkunde, as of October 10, 2017.

Web links

• Publications on fraternization books in the Opac der Regesta Imperii