Database: Clavis Historicorum Antiquitatis Posterioris (CHAP)

Title(s):

Chronicle
Chronicae
(Chronicae, Chronicles)
Chronicon
(Chronicon, Chronicle)

Author:

Fredegar, Pseudo-

Period covered:

Creation-642

Language:

Latin

State of Preservation:

Full

Genre:

Remarks:

The book division is not original. The work was probably first compiled in the early 660s. The edition by Krusch (1888) combines Fredegar with a continuation drawn from Anonymous, History of the Franks, which is a reworked version of Fredegar with additional material. Collins (2007) argues that the work remained unfinished and that this is the reason that we do not have a uniform division of books in the manuscripts.

Edition - Translation:

J.M. Wallace-Hadrill (1960) The fourth book of the chronicle of Fredegar with its continuations. London.
B. Krusch (1888) Fredegarii et aliorum Chronica: Vitae sanctorum (Monumenta Germaniae historica: Scriptores rerum Merovingicarum, 2). Hannover.
H. Wolfram, H. Haupt, A. Kusternig (1994) Quellen zur Geschichte des 7. und 8. Jahrhunderts. Darmstadt.
O. Abel (1986) Die Chronik Fredegars und der Frankenkönige. Essen.

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Bibliography:

R. Collins (2007) Die Fredegar-Chroniken (Monumenta Germaniae historica: Studien und Texte, 44). Hannover.
A. Fischer (2014) 'Rewriting History: Fredegar’s Perspectives on the Mediterranean’. In: Western Perspectives on the Mediterranean. Cultural Transfer in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, 400–800 AD, ed. A. Fischer, I. Wood. London: 55-75, 135-143.
S. Ghosh (2016) Writing the barbarian past: Studies in early medieval historical narrative. Leiden.
W. Goffart (1963) 'The Fredegar problem reconsidered'. Speculum 38: 206-241.
J. Lake (2015) 'Rethinking Fredegar's prologue'. The Journal of Medieval Latin 25: 1-27.
R. McKitterick (2005) History and memory in the Carolingian world. Cambridge.
H. Reimitz (2015) History, Frankish identity and the framing of Western ethnicity, 550-850. Cambridge.
G. Scheibelreiter (1999) 'Fredegar: Chronist einer Epoche'. The Medieval Chronicle 1: 251-259.
G. Scheibelreiter (2002) 'Gegenwart und Vergangenheit in der Sicht Fredegars'. The Medieval Chronicle 2: 212-222.