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The Medieval Church · c. 1077–1080
The Annals
Lampert of Hersfeld · c. 1028–c. 1085
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What it is
A hostile account of Henry IV's reign, containing the celebrated description of the king waiting barefoot in the snow at Canossa for three days.
Why it lasted
The source of the most famous scene in medieval politics, told by a partisan of the pope who was not there.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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