History and Politics in Late Carolingian and Ottonian Europe - The Chronicle of Regino of Prum and Adalbert of Magdeburg

Informationen zum Autor Simon MacLean is Lecturer in History at the University of St Andrews Klappentext This is the first English translation of two chronicles of long-acknowledged importance to European history in the period c.850-c.950. This period, which is widely taught in European and North American universities, saw the collapse of the Carolingian Empire and the rise in Germany of the 'First Reich' under the Ottonian dynasty. Zusammenfassung This is the first English translation of two chronicles of long-acknowledged importance to European history in the period c.850-c.950. This period, which is widely taught in European and North American universities, saw the collapse of the Carolingian Empire and the rise in Germany of the ‘First Reich’ under the Ottonian dynasty. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Series editor's prefaceAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsGenealogies and mapsIntroduction1. Regino's world and career2. Regino as historian-Date and design-Book I: themes and sources-Book II: themes and sources3. Adalbert of Magdeburg4. On this translationRegino of Prüm's *Chronicle*-Book I-Book IIAdalbert's continuationBibliographyIndex

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• Authors: Simon MacLean, Regino
• Assisted by: Rosemary Horrox (Editor), Simon MacLean (Editor), Simon MacLean (Translation)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2009
• EAN: 9780719071348
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-7134-8
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Manchester Medieval Sources; Medieval Sources; Manchester Medieval Sources; Medieval Sources
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies