Give from Eberbach

Genno von Eberbach (also Genno Eberbacensis ) was a German clergyman.

He was the author of the medieval font " Penta Chronon sive speculum futurorum temporum " ( "five times book or mirror of future times"), which he in 1220 as prior of the Cistercian - Kloster Eberbach wrote in the Rheingau. The information about his life is sparse and results mainly from the mentioned writing itself as well as a few mentions in documents of the history of Eberbach. Accordingly, he was from 1213 Subprior, 1215-1221 Prior , 1222 he appears as a hospitaller and cellarer .

The "Pentachronon" has been preserved in around 200 medieval manuscripts, and in 2004 it was critically edited by Jose Carlos Santos Paz. It owes its importance and further distribution to the fact that, written as a compilation of statements from the writings of Hildegard von Bingen , it served as a manual on the end of the world in the late Middle Ages. In terms of content, the Pentachronon belongs to the field of German historical symbolism and was directed against the rising scholastic theology as well as against the historical theology of Joachim von Fiore . Formally, it belongs to the genre of specula that is emerging at the time , under which manual-like compilations of thematically related texts were understood.

literature

• Edition: Jose Carlos Santos Paz, La Obra de Gibón de Eberbach. Edition crítica, Firenze 2004
• Arno Borst :  Giving from Eberbach. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 113 ( digitized version ).
• Hans Christoph Stoodt: At the end of the story? On the problem of determining the present using the example of a medieval handbook about the end of the world: Gibo von Eberbach's "Pentachronon sive Speculum Futurorum Temporum" , in: Dieter Georgi, Hans Günter Heimbrock, Michael Moxter (eds.), Religion und Gestaltung der Zeit, Kampen o J. [1994], pp. 160-177.
• Elisabeth Stein : The Pentachronon Giving by Eberbach, in: "In the face of God man seeks himself". International scientific symposium on Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) , ed. Rainer Berndt SJ (Eruditi Sapientia. Studies on the Middle Ages and its history of reception. Edited by Rainer Berndt, Volume 2), pp. 577-591.

Web links

• Gibo prior Eberbacensis in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"