Marbach Annals
The so-called Marbacher Annalen are an annalistic history of the Reich with a reporting period from 631 to 1238. They are among the most important historical sources of the Staufer period and have received several sequels. Its name goes back to the Marbach Abbey in Alsace , the presumed place of origin.
The Annales Marbacenses are largely based on older, now largely lost records, which an unknown editor probably interwoven with orally transmitted information, particularly of regional interest, in the 1230s. The development process is largely in the dark, but the research attaches great authenticity to the annual reports for the late 12th and early 13th centuries; This not least because the compiler is characterized by an atypical objectivity in the presentation and a relative balance in the judgment. In the nearby Cistercian monastery in Neuburg , the history was revised and expanded in the middle of the 13th century, again in Strasbourg in the 14th century. As a result, the presentation period of this last version extends to the year 1375.
Source edition
- Annales Marbacenses qui dicuntur, rec. Hermann Bloch ( MGH Scriptores rer. Germ. In us. Schol. [9]), Hanover / Leipzig, 1907 (authoritative edition, online ).
literature
- Hermann Bloch: About the so-called "Marbach" annals. In: New archive of the society for older German history . Vol. 38, 1913, pp. 297-306.
- Otto Oppermann : On the genesis of the so-called Marbach Annals. In: Communications from the Institute for Austrian Historical Research . Vol. 34, 1913, No. 4, pp. 561-595.
- Roman Deutinger : On the origin of the Marbach annals. In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages . Vol. 56, 2000, pp. 505-523 ( online ). On the surviving manuscripts, ibid. P. 521 f.