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The high-medieval benedictine monks Lambert of Hersfeld (before 1028 - 1081/82) and Eberhard of Fulda (before 1135 - after 1165/68) lived to see in their neighboring imperial abbeys in today’s East-Hesse in different phases the cutting breaks of the Roman-German empire from the middle of the 11. to the middle of the 12. century, which brought long-living changes in church, politics, society and economy. Then the two learned monks created impor-tant works, with which they reacted as representatives of their abbeys and as agents of personal interests to the watched transformations. At first Lambert of Hers-feld wrote the hagiographic “Vita Lulli” (around 1070/73), a lost “hexameter poem” (1073), the monas-tery-historic “Libellus de institutione Herveldensis ecclesiae” (1074/76) and the general-historic “An-nales” (1077-1078/79), whereas Eberhard of Fulda later put together the “Codex Eberhardi” (around 1160) as a great compendium of diplomas and other documents of his monastery. Starting from these two critical representatives of their beloved home-abbeys our description offers out of the perspective of region-al history a comparative subsumption of their surroundings, work and importance before the back-ground of the parallels and individual ways in the development of the two ambivalent neighboring monasteries Hersfeld and Fulda from around 1040 to 1160.
For both the writer of history and the compilator of diplomas open in spite of their different working fields and periods a lot of possibilities to compare them as monastic fighters against the critical change in the high Middle Ages. Besides both of them take a key role in the relatively remarkable, however problematic tradition of sources of their high-ranking home-abbeys in the early and high Middle Ages – and even also deliver each important information about their neighboring monastery. In this context the discoveries concerning the general power of evidence of Lambert and Eberhard for the history of the empire and diplomatics, which already have been won by the complementary science and historic research, have to be used and distinguished also detailed for the regional history, especially since in the core regions Hesse and Thuringia. A particular dimension however Lambert and Eberhard don’t gain as much by the presentation of historical events and documents, but by the covered or even open scattered inserting of personal refer-ences, which offer a view into their previous biogra-phy, their practical way of working and their personal attitude. Moreover both show exemplary the area of tension of a monastic writer between a monasterial order of his abbot and an individual initiative of his own, through which they only are really comprehensible as historical personalities.
In the end Lambert and Eberhard generally demonstrate, that one can concede medieval monks, who are armed with the feather in their hand, despite the distortion of events, the falsification of basic sources or the invention of facts, a subjective sense of truth, which is marked by a work for the glory of god, for the well-being of the home-abbey and for the sup-port of the class of birth.
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Created: 2010Issued: 2011-06-28Updated: 2011-08-08
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Fachbereich Geschichte und Kulturwissenschaften
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Philipps-Universität Marburg
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Eberhard von FuldaLambert von Hersfeld
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Lambert von HersfeldEberhard von Fulda
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Alles, Stefan: Lampert von Hersfeld und Eberhard von Fulda. : Philipps-Universität Marburg 2011-06-28. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17192/z2011.0119.
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