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Goslarer Stiftschronik

(464 words)

Author(s): Schauerte, Thomas
[Chronik des Stiftes SS. Simon und Judas in Goslar; Chronicon Goslariense] 13th century. Northern Germany. The anonymous Low German imperial chronicle was originally written about 1294 at the Goslar Imperial collegiate church, which was closely connected with the nearby Imperial palace founded by emperor Henry II. In the 11th-13th century, the Imperial free town was one of the most important seats of the German monarchy. Although the entries of the Stiftschronik are limited in scope, it is nevertheless an important source due to the scarcity of chronicles survivin…
Date: 2021-04-15

Johannes von Hildesheim

(342 words)

Author(s): Schauerte, Thomas
1310/20-75. Germany. Carmelite theologian and historian, scribe, and author of the popular Historia trium regum (History of the three kings), theological works and letters. A pupil of Johannes Corvus at Hildesheim, he entered the Carmelite monastery at Marienau near Hamelin. After studies in Avignon and Paris he was prior in Kassel, then Strasbourg, met pope Urban V in 1367 in Rome, and ended his life as prior back at Marienau. Around 100 surviving letters show the influence of early humanism and attest his contacts with Gregory XI, Charles IV, and prominent scientists, clerics an…
Date: 2021-04-15

Annales Hildesheimenses

(269 words)

Author(s): Schauerte, Thomas
10th-12th century. Germany. Anonymous Latin prose annals by several Hildesheim authors, some of whom were clerics of St. Michael. One author may have been the cathedral’s decanus monasteriiThangmar, presumed biographer of St. Bernward. Beginning with the creation of the world and extending to the year 1137, they are one of the important German sources for the period. The annals up to the year 814 are adaptations of Isidore of Seville, the Chronicon Laurissense Breve and others, and the account of the  9th-10th century derives from the lost Annales Hildesheimenses maiores, which in t…
Date: 2021-04-15

Annales Palidenses

(313 words)

Author(s): Schauerte, Thomas
(Annals of Pöhlde) 12th century. Northern Germany. World chronicle in Latin prose, written at the monastery in Pöhlde (Lower Saxony) before 1197 by a Premonstratensian cleric, known in German as the Pöhlder Annalen or Pöhlder Chronik. Pöhlde was an imperial palace of the Ottonian era, but the despite their title, the Annals pay very little attention to its history.The text commences with extensive adaptations mainly from Honorius Augustodunensis and Ekkehard of Aura, continued from 469 on by an otherwise unknown Theodorus. Later parts are based on Paul the Deacon, and the annals en…
Date: 2021-04-15

Overstolz, Werner

(265 words)

Author(s): Schauerte, Thomas
ca 1390/1400 - 1451. Germany. Knight of the Teutonic Order, high-ranking patrician of Cologne. Overstolz was the head of a wealthy Cologne family, served his town as Greve at the Schöffengericht and entered the Teutonic Order after the death of his wife in 1443, where he made himself useful in law. In 1446, he compiled his Overstolz(en)buch (Cologne, Historisches Archiv, Best. 7657 (Genealogische Abteilung), A 67, single manuscript, wrongly bound), a family chronicle which also gathers oral traditions and copies of important documents, heraldry and li…
Date: 2021-04-15

Matthäus von Pappenheim

(427 words)

Author(s): Schauerte, Thomas
[Matthäus Marschall von Pappenheim-Biberbach] 1458-1541. Germany. Canon of Augsburg cathedral. Chronicler and genealogist of Swabian nobility. Born at Biberbach castle as the last male descendant of the Biberbach line, he belonged to the widespread Frankish-Swabian Pappenheim (formerly Cal[l]atin) family, famous for their honorary office at the coronations of the German kings and emperors since the 12th century. After studies in Heidelberg and Ingolstadt, he achieved the degree of doctor iuris utriusque at Paris university in 1482. In 1495 he became a canon at Augsburg cathedr…
Date: 2021-04-15

Chronicon Hildesheimense

(256 words)

Author(s): Schauerte, Thomas
11th-15th century. Germany. Anonymous Latin prose chronicle on the history of the Hildesheim bishopric 815-1079, begun soon after 1079. This important chronicle was inspired by bishop Hezilo of Hildesheim (1054-79) and begun soon after his death, obviously by an anonymous cathedral cleric, at the same time as the Fundatio ecclesiae Hildesheimensis .The chronicle opens with several lists of the Hildesheim bishops, of the clerics who became bishops or archbishops elsewhere, and of deceased priests, deacons and sub-deacons, followed by a list of Frankish-German kings up to Heinrich …
Date: 2021-04-15

Easter

(5,925 words)

Author(s): Kraus, Georg | Kinzig, Wolfram | Schlemmer, Karl | Plank, Peter | Schwier, Helmut | Et al.
[German Version] I. Terminology – II. Church History – III. Liturgy – IV. Customs and Traditions – V. Homiletics and Education – VI. Art History I. Terminology Easter (cf. Ger. Ostern) is the English word for the feast of Jesus Christ's resurrection (II). The name in other Germanic and Romance languages derives instead from Gk πάσχα/ páscha (Aram. פַּסְחָא/ pascha' or פִּסְחָא/ pischa' for Heb. פֶּסַח/ pesah. [from פסח/ psh., “limp/go past”, etymology not entirely clear]; Lat. as pascha or passa), for example, Påske (Danish and Norwegian), Pasen (Dutch), Påsk (Swedish), Pasqua (…

Joseph, Father of Jesus

(738 words)

Author(s): Feldmeier, Reinhard | Schauerte, Thomas
[German Version] I. New Testament – II. Art I. New Testament The father of Jesus appears in the New Testament only in the birth and infancy narratives of Matthew and Luke; his name is confirmed by the two texts in John that speak of Jesus as the son of Joseph (1:45; 6:42). Despite the relatively late date of the evidence, there is no reason to doubt the historicity of Joseph, since the traditions regarding him are independent and could have received their information from the family of Jesus, which played …