Record ID:
61542736 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 2005084180
Heading:
Birth:
  • 1064~
Occupations:
  • Historians
Used for:
  • Hugo, von Flavigny, approximately 1064-
  • Hugh, of Flavigny, b. ca. 1064
Notes:
  • Healy, Patrick. The chronicle of Hugh of Flavigny, 2006 ECIP t.p. (Hugh of Flavigny)
  • New Catholic encyclopedia (Hugh of Flavigny; Benedictine monk and historian; b. about 1064, probably at Verdun (Lorraine); d. before the middle of the twelfth century; received his education at the monastery of St-Vannes at Verdun, where he afterwards took the habit of a Benedictine novice; in 1096 Hugh was elected Abbot of Flavigny but later abdicated due to disputes with his Bishop and his own monks; he wrote a chronicle of the world's history from the birth of Christ down to his own times (Chronicon Virdunense seu Flaviniacense) in two books: the first, which extends to the year 1002, a loosely planned compilation whose importance is entirely due to the fragments of older lost works which it contains; the second covers the years from 1002 to 1112 and is valuable especially for the history of Lorraine, and also for the ecclesiastical history of France)
  • Studien zu Hugo von Flavigny, 2010.
Local system number:
  • (AuPaJTL)367422
Cataloguing source:
  • DLC eng rda DLC DLC ICU DLC IEN DLC