An edition of The chronicle of the Slavs
(1935)
The chronicle of the Slavs.
by Helmold
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xii, 321 p. illus., map. 24 cm.
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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
Bibliography: p. [285]-297. Copyright 1935.
English translation of Chronica Slavorum by Helmold of Bosau (ca. 1120-1177)
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