Poeta Saxo

The Poeta Saxo is the emergency name of a historian working in the Corvey Monastery towards the end of the 9th century .

Between 888 and 891 he wrote the Annales de gestis Caroli Magni imperatoris in the form of a great historical poem. The fifth book is entitled De vita et obitu . This biography of Charlemagne was based in particular on other works. These include the Annales qui dicuntur Einhardi and the Vita Karoli Magni des Einhard . The earlier held view that the Poeta Saxo was identical to the poet Agius is now viewed as refuted. The work is full of praise for Charlemagne and his missionary work in Saxony . In terms of content, the work is not very original. Linguistically it is considered appropriate to the time and superior to Agius' work.

Work edition

• Poeta Saxo, Annales de gestis Caroli magni imperatoris, ed. Paul von Winterfeld (= MGH Poetae latini aevi Karolini. IV,. 1–71). Weidmann, Berlin 1899. ( digitized version )

literature

• Jürgen Bohne: The Poeta Saxo in the Historiographical Tradition of the 8th - 10th Century. Berlin 1963 (Berlin, Free University, Phil. F., dissertation of July 3, 1963).
• Susann El-Kholi: Reading in women's convents of the East Franconian-German Empire from the 8th century to the middle of the 13th century (= Epistemata. Vol. 203). Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 1997, ISBN 3-8260-1278-X , p. 212f.
• Karl Heinrich Krüger : Poeta Saxo: The discovery of the East Franconian royal palaces . In: Caspar Ehlers , Jörg Jarnut , Matthias Wemhoff (eds.): Centers of stately representation in the High Middle Ages: history, architecture and ceremonial (= German royal palaces. Contributions to their historical and archaeological research , vol. 7). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 3-525-36521-7 , pp. 87-99.
• Max Manitius: History of Latin Literature in the Middle Ages. Volume 1: From Justinian to the middle of the 10th century. Beck, Munich 1911 [unaltered reprint Munich, 2005], pp. 583f.
• Ingrid Rembold: The Poeta Saxo at Paderborn. Episcopal authority and Carolingian rule in late ninth-century Saxony. In: Early Medieval Europe 21 (2013), pp. 169–196.

Web links

• Poeta Saxo in the repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages"