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xii, 321 p. illus., map. 24 cm.

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Language
English
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321

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Subjects

history, Slavs, sources, Middle Ages, Chronology, Medieval Civilization, Eslavos en Alemania, Historia

People

Henry Duke of Saxony (1129-1195), Vicelinus Saint, Bishop of Oldenburg (d. 1154), Vicelinus Saint, Bp. of Oldenburg (d. 1154)

Places

Denmark, Germany, Holstein, Lübeck (Germany), Lübeck (Principality)

Times

843-1273, To 1241, To 1366, To 1386

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Table of Contents

Preface … vii
Contents … ix
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Introduction … 1
The background of Helmold’s Chronicle … 3
The Church on the frontier … 10
Helmold’s life … 19
Helmold and his critics … 26
Helmold’s style … 33
The transmission of the text … 36
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THE CHRONICLE OF THE SLAVS: BOOK ONE
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[Preface] … 43
1. The divisions of the Slavs … 45
2. The city of Jumne … 48
3. How Charles converted the Saxons to the faith … 53
4. The division of the kingdom … 56
5. The mission of Saint Ansgar in Sweden … 57
6. The conversion of the Rugiani … 59
7. The persecution of the Northmen … 61
8. The invasion of the Hungarians … 64
9. The conversion of Harold … 66
10. Duke Hermann … 68
11. Archbishop Adalbert … 70
12. Bishop Marco … 71
13. Bishop Wago … 73
14. The treachery of Billug … 75
15. Svein, the King of the Danes … 78
16. How the Slavs relinquished the faith … 81
17. Bishop Unwan … 85
18. Bishop Bernhard … 87
19. The persecution of Gottschalk … 90
20. The faith of Gottschalk … 92
21. The war of the Tholenzi … 93
22. The rebellion of the Slavs … 95
23. The passion of Saint John, the Bishop … 98
24. The first defection of the Slavs from the faith … 98
25. Cruto … 99
26. The death of Butue … 104
27. The building of the Harzburg … 105
28. The public penance of King Henry … 107
29. [The miserable death of Rudolph, Duke of Swabia] … 109
30. [How the Emperor Henry drove the Pope from Rome] … 111
31. The letter of Peter the Monk … 112
32. The humiliation of the Emperor Henry … 113
33. [The rising of the son against the father] … 116
34. The death of Cruto … 120
35. The death of Count Gottfried … 123
36. The slaughter of the Rugiani … 124
37. The Victory of Mistue … 127
38. The Expedition of the Slavs into the land of the Rugiani … 128
39. The massacre of the Romans … 132
40. The battle of Welfesholz … 134
41. The election of Lothar … 138
42. Bishop Vicelin … 140
43. Death of Ludolph the Priest … 142
44. The Provost Thietmar … 143
45. [Vicelin’s departure into Gaul] … 144
46. The arrival of Vicelin in Slavia … 146
47. The repentance of the Nordalbingians … 148
48. Zuentepolch … 150
49. Cnut … 152
50. Nicholas … 154
51. Eric … 156
52. The rites of the Slavs … 158
53. The building of Segeberg … 160
54. The death of the Emperor Lothar … 162
55. The persecution of Pribislav … 163
56. The death of Duke Henry … 166
57. The building of the city of Lübeck … 168
58. [The translation of the monastery of Segeberg to Cuzelina] … 169
59. The blessed Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux … 170
60. Kings Conrad and Louis … 172
61. The storming of Lisbon … 174
62. Niclot … 175
63. The burning of the ships … 177
64. Gerlav, the priest … 178
65. The siege of Demmin … 180
66. The famine … 181
67. The death of Etheler … 182
68. Duke Henry … 187
69. Archbishop Hartwig … 188
70. Count Adolph … 192
71. Niclot … 194
72. King Conrad … 195
73. The passing away of the provost Thietmar … 197
74. His burial … 200
75. The sickness of Bishop Vicelin … 201
76. [The market at Lübeck] … 203
77. Bishop Evermod … 204
78. The passing away of Vicelin … 205
79. How Vicelin gave sight to a blind woman … 206
80 (79). Gerold, Bishop of Oldenburg … 208
81 (80). The consecration of the Emperor Fred¬erick … 211
82 (81). The hanging of the Veronese … 214
83 (82). The reconciliation of bishops Hartwig and Gerold … 215
84 (83). The conversion of Pribislav … 218
85 (84). The death of Cnut … 225
86 (85). The building of Löwenstadt … 228
87 (86). The siege of Milan … 229
88 (87). The killing of Niclot … 232
89 (88). Albert the Bear … 235
90 (89). The translation of the Bishopric of Oldenburg … 236
91 (90). The schism between Alexander and Victor … 236
92 (91). The tithes of the Holzatians … 239
93 (92). The captivity of Vratislav … 242
94 (95). The dedication of Neumünster … 245
95 (96). The passing of Bishop Gerold … 247
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THE CHRONICLE OF THE SLAVS: BOOK TWO
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96. The preface of the following work … 251
97 (1). Bishop Conrad … 252
98 (2). [The massacre of the Flemings] … 254
99 (3). Bishop Bern … 257
100 (4). The hanging of Vratislav … 258
101 (5). The burial of Count Adolph … 262
102 (6). The restoration of Demmin … 263
103 (7). The princes’ envy of the Duke’s glory … 265
104 (8). The sack of Bremen … 267
105 (9). The expulsion of Bishop Conrad … 268
106 (10). The enthroning of Pope Calixtus … 270
107 (11). The concord of the princes with the Duke … 272
108 (12). Svantowit, the idol of the Rugiani … 274
109 (13). The changing of the body and blood … 277
110 (14). The reconciliation of the king of the Danes with the Duke … 280
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Bibliography … 283
Index … 299
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Map of the Helmold region, Page 2

Edition Notes

Reprint of: originally published by Columbia University Press, 1935.

English translation of Chronica Slavorum by Helmold of Bosau (ca. 1120-1177)

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New York
Series
Records of civilization : sources and studies -- no.21

Classifications

Library of Congress
DD145 .H4818 1966

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xii, 321 p.
Number of pages
321
Dimensions
24 cm

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL21848826M
LCCN
66028331
OCLC/WorldCat
406128, 422306002, 57450482, 327565292, 298105310

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xii, 321 p. illus. (map) diagr. 24 cm.

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