Orthomis Episcopi Frisingensis Chronica sive Historia de duabus civitatibus

Editionis quam paraverat A. Hofmeister textum denuo imprimendum curavit W. Lammers. Otto Beschof Von Freising, Chronik oder Geschichte der Zwei Staaten

New: the extensive introduction by W. Lammers, who situated Otto's history in its 12th-century intellectual context and studied the work in itself, both its technical aspects (biography, sources, models) and its basic ideas, symbols and figures, arguing that Otto's Chronicle extended Augustinian cat...

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Author:A. Hofmeister
Editor:Walther Lammers
Translator:A. Schmidt
Published: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt, 1972
Series:Ausgewählte Quellen zur deutschen Geschichte des Mittelalters
Part:16
Total Pages:LXX-760; 14 pl.
Format:Book
Topic:- Influence and Survival > The Middle Ages (430-1453) > Influence on the various authors and writings > [Otton de Freising]
Status:Needs Review
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Summary:New: the extensive introduction by W. Lammers, who situated Otto's history in its 12th-century intellectual context and studied the work in itself, both its technical aspects (biography, sources, models) and its basic ideas, symbols and figures, arguing that Otto's Chronicle extended Augustinian categories of thought (cf. the tract's subtitle) to the history of the Middle Ages. Bull. th.; an.; méd. 12 (1978), 335.