Manchester Medieval Sources
This chapter contains the translated and annotated text of the 1106 Continuation of Frutolf ’s Chronicle
This chapter contains the translated and annotated text of the 1125 Continuation of Frutolf ’s Chronicle.
This chapter contains the translated and annotated text of the Anonymous imperial Chronicle.
This book is the first English translation of one of the most significant chronicles of the middle ages. Written in Bamberg at the end of the eleventh century, Frutolf of Michelsberg's Chronicle offers a lively and vivid account of the great struggle between the German emperors and the papacy known today as the Investiture Contest. Frutolf's Chronicle has numerous continuations written in the first quarter of the twelfth century. Together with that, Frutolf's Chronicle offers an engaging and accessible snapshot of how medieval people reacted to a conflict that led to civil war in Germany and Italy, and fundamentally altered the relationship of church and state in Western society.
This chapter contains the translated and annotated text of Ekkehard of Aura's Chronicle, book 5.
This chapter contains the translated and annotated text of Ekkehard of Aura's Hierosolimita.
This chapter presents translated and annotated sources on the theme of appeasement and tyranny during the reign of Richard II, 1389–97.
This chapter contains the translated and annotated text of Frutolf of Michelsberg's Chronicle.
This introduction provides historical background and a discussion of the Frutolf's Chronicle. Written in Bamberg at the end of the eleventh century, Frutolf of Michelsberg's Chronicle offers a lively and vivid account of the great struggle between the German emperors and the papacy known today as the Investiture Contest. Closely related to Frutolf's Chronicle and the 1106 Continuation is the Anonymous imperial chronicle composed in 1113/1114. The existence of multiple continuations of the Chronicle obscured Frutolf's authorship of his own work. From the middle of the twelfth century until the end of the nineteenth not only the various continuations, but also the original Chronicle itself, were attributed to Abbot Ekkehard of Aura.