Commission for the Historical sources from the Middle Ages in Germany
The Commissions´s website www.repfont.badw.de provides an up-to-date repertory of narrative sources from the German Empire dating from Charlemagne to 1500: Geschichtsquellen des deutschen Mittelalters (Historical Sources from the Middle Ages in Germany). More than 3.000 authors and anonymous works are listed here according to their manuscript tradition, editions, translations and research literature. The Geschichtsquellen grew out of the Repertorium Fontium Historiae Medii Aevi, a likewise repertory of European scope, which the Commission has been involved in producing since 1957. The Repertorium, an international enterprise, was produced in Rome between 1956 and 2007 and consists of eleven volumes.
A dedication copy of the World Chronicle by Bishop Otto of Freising, one of the most important interpretations of history from the Middle Ages, was presented to the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa in 1157. An illustrated version has survived in a manuscript from Jena (here: the banishment and death in exile of Pope Gregory VII in 1085). Literature concerning the cycle of illustrations will also be available via the “Geschichtsquellen”.