History and politics in late Carolingian and Ottonian Europe 
The Chronicle of Regino of Prüm and Adalbert of Magdeburg

Abbot Regino of Prüm (d.915) was the last great historian of the Carolingian Empire, which spanned around a million square kilometres of continental western Europe during the eighth and ninth centuries. His Chronicle is the essential account of the empire’s collapse, while its brief continuation by Adalbert, archbishop of Magdeburg, is one of the key accounts of the rise to power of the Ottonians, the first great German dynasty. Both texts are here translated into English for the first time.

Regino’s lively and anecdotal style will appeal to a variety of audiences, and this book is aimed at professional researchers, non-specialists and undergraduates alike. A substantial introduction provides both basic orientation and an original scholarly interpretation of the text, while readers are helped along by a detailed footnote commentary. Alongside other Carolingian texts translated in this series, the book will open up the later ninth and earlier tenth centuries to undergraduates and others engaged in the study of this increasingly popular period.

Tabella dei contenuti

Series editor’s preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Genealogies and maps
Introduction
1. Regino’s world and career
2. Regino as historian
-Date and design
-Book I: themes and sources
-Book II: themes and sources
3. Adalbert of Magdeburg
4. On this translation
Regino of Prüm’s *Chronicle*
-Book I
-Book II
Adalbert’s continuation
Bibliography
Index

Circa l’autore

Simon Mac Lean is Lecturer in History at the University of St Andrews