Magdeburg Annals

The Magdeburg Annals ( Latin Annales Magdeburgenses ) are a chronicle from the 12th century in Latin .

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The annals give a general history from the birth of Christ to 1188. Mainly events of overriding importance in Roman and German history are presented, in some cases regional events as well.

The Magdeburger Annalen quote statements from other chronicles, such as that of Ekkehard von Aura , the Pöhlder Annalen , the Pegauer Annalen and the Quedlinburger Annalen . It is possible that they are a derivative of the Nienburg annals, which have not been preserved. The Magdeburg annals were probably made in the Berge monastery .

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Latin

• Georg Heinrich Pertz a . a. (Ed.): Scriptores (in Folio) 16: Annales aevi Suevici. Hanover 1859, pp. 107–196 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version )

German

• Eduard Winkelmann: The year books of Magdeburg (Chronographus Saxo) (= historian of the German prehistoric times. Volume 63) . Berlin, 1863, 3rd edition, 1941. ( digitized version )

literature

• Klaus Nass: The imperial chronicle of the Annalista Saxo and the Saxon historiography in the 12th century. (= MGH Schriften, Volume 41.) Hannover 1996, pp. 179-181
• Klaus Nass: Annales Magdeburgenses. In: J. Luckhardt, F. Niehoff (Hrsg.): Heinrich the lion and his time . Munich 1995, p. 492f.

Web links

• Annales Magdeburgenses Repertorium "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages