BRUNO OF MAGDEBURG. - A cleric of the cathedral of Magdeburg in Saxony, who lived in the 11th century. A fervent supporter and friend of Bishop Werner of Merseburg, he lived through the drama of the Saxon people and fought in Henry IV the persecutor of his own nation, and at the same time the obstinate antagonist of the Gregorian and reforming action. His brief account of the struggles of the Saxons against the Salian usurper is colored by such sentiments: the De bello saxonico (1073-1081), a source of extreme interest, although to be used with discernment, in view of its evident tendentiousness. In the light of this one understands the exaggerations and also the most serious omissions, such as that of the Council of 1080. One can note a progressive enrichment of the information, which shows the author's ever greater interest in his work.

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BIBL.: Ed. Pertz, in MGH, Script., V (1843), pp. 327-384, and W. Wattenbach, manual edition, Hannover 1880. Cf. W. Wattenbach, Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen im Mittelalter, II, 6th ed., Berlin 1894, pp. 86-88; A. Potthast, Bibliotheca historica m. aevi, I, 2nd ed., Berlin 1896, p. 173; Manitius, III, 398-402.

Pier Fausto Palumbo

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Bruno of Magdeburg

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