Vita Bernwardi
The Vita Bernwardi episcopi Hildesheimensis is the biography of Bishop Bernward of Hildesheim († November 20, 1022 )
The scholaster at the Hildesheim Cathedral School Thangmar (* 940/950, † 25 May before 1007) calls himself the author . The authorship of at least parts of the text is secured, other parts may have been added later.
The Vita Bernwardi is one of the essential sources for the history of the last years of the Liudolfinger . As such, but also in terms of textual history, it is continued in Wolfheres ' biography of Bernwards' successor Godehard .
Text output
- Vita Bernwardi episcopi Hildesheimensis auctore Thangmaro . In: Georg Heinrich Pertz u. a. (Ed.): Scriptores (in Folio) 4: Annales, chronica et historiae aevi Carolini et Saxonici. Hannover 1841, pp. 754–782 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version )
- Vita Bernwardi , Latin-German, ed. by Hatto Kallfelz (FSGA 22: Biographies of some bishops of the 10th – 12th centuries), Darmstadt 1973, pp. 263–361.
- Vita Bernwardi. The life of Bishop Bernward von Hildesheim . 1993, ISBN 3870657758
literature
- Knut Görich and Hans-Henning Kortüm: Otto III., Thangmar and the Vita Bernwardi . In: MIÖG 98 (1990), pp. 1-57.
- Marcus Stumpf: On the source value of Thangmar's Vita Bernwardi . In: German Archive for Research into the Middle Ages 53 (1997), pp. 461–496.
- Martina Giese: The text versions of the biography of Bishop Bernwards of Hildesheim. (MGH Studies and Texts 40), Hannover 2006.
- Christine Wulf: Bernward von Hildesheim, a bishop on the way to holiness. In: Concilium Medii Aevi . 11 (2008). Pp. 1-19. PDF