Also known as:
French: Raoul Glaber;
Latin: Radulfus Glaber, Rodolphus Glaber
RODULFUS GLABER. - Benedictine, b. in Burgundy around 985. He entered the cloister of St-Germain d'Auxerre at a very young age.
Restless and impatient of discipline, he took to wandering from one abbey to another. Thus, around 1029, from the monastery of St. Benignus of Dijon, where he had moved in 1015, he came to Italy for the consecration of the monastery of Susa, with Abbot William of Volpiano, whose life he later wrote, which is his best and most complete work (Acta SS. Ianuarii, I, Paris 1863, pp. 57-64; MGH, Scriptores, IV, pp. 655-58; PL 142, 697-720). In 1030 he moved to Cluny; in 1035 he was again at St-Germain and remained there until his death (1046-47).
RODOLFO I of HABSBURG, king of GERMANY. - Bronze statue (16th cent.) of R. I. forming part of the cenotaph of Maximilian I. Innsbruck, Hofkirche.
During his stay at Cluny he wrote, in a very rough Latin, his work Historiarum libri quinque, begun already at St-Germain on the advice of Abbot William and continued at the urging of Odilo. This work, which covers the period from 900 to 1044, despite its prolixity and confusion and its frequent inaccuracies, is nevertheless very valuable for knowledge of European history at the beginning of the 11th century, constituting for many events in Italy, Germany, and especially France the only source.
Bibliography6 worksed. of Histor. II, V, in MGH, Scriptores, VII, pp. 48-72, incomplete but with a critical introduction by G. Waitz; the best critical ed. is
BIBL.: ed. of Histor. II, V, in MGH, Scriptores, VII, pp. 48-72, incomplete but with a critical introduction by G. Waitz; the best critical ed. is by M. Prou, in Collection de textes, XV, Paris 1886; E. Sackur, Studien über R. G., in Neues Archiv d. Gesellschaft alt. deut. Geschichte, 14 (1889), pp. 377-418; E. Gebhar, L'état d'âme d'un moine de l'an 1000, le chroniqueur R. G., in Revue des deux mondes, 107 (1891), pp. 600-28; E. Petit, R. G., in Revue historique, 48 (1892), pp. 283-99; K. Grund, Die Anschauungen des R. G., Greifswald 1910.
Majarelli, Stanislao. “Rodolfo Il Glabro.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. X, coll. 1081–1082. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953. https://azioneromana.com/article/rodolfo-il-glabro.
MLA
Majarelli, Stanislao. “Rodolfo Il Glabro.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. X, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1953, coll. 1081–1082. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/rodolfo-il-glabro.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec10_rodolfo_il_glabro,
author = {Majarelli, Stanislao},
title = {Rodolfo Il Glabro},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {X},
pages = {1081--1082},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1953},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/rodolfo-il-glabro}
}
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