Abstract
Abstract: This volume presents the first English translation of the twelfth-century Chronicle of the Monastery of Petershausen (Casus monasterii Petrishusensis), an account of the history of a Benedictine community on the shores of Lake Constance written over three decades from ca. 1136 to ca. 1164. The anonymous chronicler ‐ very likely the future Abbot Gebhard I (r. 1164‐1170/1173) ‐ was an eyewitness to the most recent events of the chronicle, which charted the fortunes of his community from its late tenth-century foundation to its reform in 1086 by monks of Hirsau to the devastating fire that laid waste to the abbey in 1159. Thanks to the industry of Alison Beach and her fellow translators, readers can now experience the hopes and tribulations of Abbot Gebhard’s community in this lucid new translation.
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