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The Medieval Church · c. 967–973

Deeds of the Saxons

Widukind of Corvey · c. 925–after 973

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What it is

A history of the Saxon people and the Ottonian kings, dedicated to an abbess, and notably reticent about the church for a book written by a monk.

Why it lasted

The founding history of the German kingdom, and a rare medieval work more interested in a people than in a bishopric.

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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