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The Historia gentis Langobardorum (history of the Lombards
Lombards

The Lombards were a Germanic peoples originally from Northern Europe who settled in the valley of the Danube and from there invaded Byzantine Italian peninsula in 568 under the leadership of Alboin....
) is the chief work by Paul the Deacon
Paul the Deacon

Paul the Deacon , also known as Paulus Diaconus, Warnefred and Cassinensis, , was a Benedictine monk and historian of the Lombards....
, written in the late 8th century
8th century

The 8th century is the period from 701 to 800 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Christian Era/Common Era....
.

This incomplete history in six books was written after 787
787

Events...
 and at any rate no later than 796
796

Events...
, maybe at Montecassino. It covers the story of the Lombards from 568
568

Events...
 to the death of King Liutprand in 747
747

Events...
, and contains much information about the Byzantine empire
Byzantine Empire

Byzantine Empire and Eastern Roman Empire are conventional names used to describe the Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centered on its capital of Constantinople....
, the Franks
Franks

The Franks or Frankish people were a West Germanic ethnic group first identified in the 3rd century as living north and east of the Lower Rhine River....
, and others. The story is told from the point of view of a Lombard patriot and is especially valuable for the relations between the Franks and the Lombards.






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The Historia gentis Langobardorum (history of the Lombards
Lombards

The Lombards were a Germanic peoples originally from Northern Europe who settled in the valley of the Danube and from there invaded Byzantine Italian peninsula in 568 under the leadership of Alboin....
) is the chief work by Paul the Deacon
Paul the Deacon

Paul the Deacon , also known as Paulus Diaconus, Warnefred and Cassinensis, , was a Benedictine monk and historian of the Lombards....
, written in the late 8th century
8th century

The 8th century is the period from 701 to 800 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Christian Era/Common Era....
.

This incomplete history in six books was written after 787
787

Events...
 and at any rate no later than 796
796

Events...
, maybe at Montecassino. It covers the story of the Lombards from 568
568

Events...
 to the death of King Liutprand in 747
747

Events...
, and contains much information about the Byzantine empire
Byzantine Empire

Byzantine Empire and Eastern Roman Empire are conventional names used to describe the Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centered on its capital of Constantinople....
, the Franks
Franks

The Franks or Frankish people were a West Germanic ethnic group first identified in the 3rd century as living north and east of the Lower Rhine River....
, and others. The story is told from the point of view of a Lombard patriot and is especially valuable for the relations between the Franks and the Lombards. Paul used the document called the Origo gentis Langobardorum
Origo Gentis Langobardorum

The Origo Gentis Langobardorum is a short 7th century text, detailing a legend of the origin of the Lombards, and their history up to the rule of Perctarit ....
, the Liber pontificalis
Liber Pontificalis

The Liber Pontificalis is a book of biography of popes from Saint Peter until the 15th century. The original publication of the Liber Pontificalis stopped with Pope Adrian II or Pope Stephen V , but it was later supplemented in a different style until Pope Eugene IV and then Pope Pius II ....
, the lost history of Secundus of Trent
Secundus of Non

Secundus of Non or Trent was an adviser at the court of the Lombards king Agilulf . He wrote a now lost history of the Lombards which Paul the Deacon used in his Historia gentis Langobardorum....
, and the lost annals of Benevento
Benevento

Benevento is a town and comune of Campania, Italy, capital of the province of Benevento, 50 km northeast of Naples. It is situated on a hill 130 m above sea-level at the confluence of the Calore Irpino and Sabato....
; he made a free use of Bede
Bede

Bede , , was a monasticism at the Northumbrian monastery of Saint Peter at Monkwearmouth, today part of Sunderland, England, and of its companion monastery, Saint Paul's, in modern Jarrow , both in the Kingdom of Northumbria....
, Gregory of Tours
Gregory of Tours

Saint Gregory of Tours was a Gallo-Roman History and Bishops of Tours, which made him a leading prelate of Gaul. He was born Georgius Florentius, later adding the name Gregorius in honour of his maternal great-grandfather....
 and Isidore of Seville
Isidore of Seville

Saint Isidore of Seville was Archbishop of Seville for more than three decades and has the reputation of being one of the greatest scholars of the early Middle Ages....
.

Editions

Of the Historia there are about a hundred manuscripts extant. It was largely used by subsequent writers, was often continued, and was first printed in Paris in 1514. Among the editions of the Latin the best is that edited by Ludwig Konrad Bethmann and Georg Waitz
Georg Waitz

Georg Waitz was a Germany historian and politician.He was born at Flensburg, in the duchy of Schleswig and educated at the Flensburg gymnasium and the universities of university of Kiel and Humboldt University of Berlin....
, in the Monumenta Germaniae Historica
Monumenta Germaniae Historica

The Monumenta Germaniae Historica is a comprehensive series of carefully edited and published sources for the study of History of Germany from the end of the Roman Empire to 1500....
. Scriptores rerum langobardicarum et Italicarum (Hanover, 1878).

Translations

It has been translated into English, German, French, Spanish, Swedish and Italian, the English translation being by W.D. Foulke (Philadelphia, 1906), the German by O. Abel and R. Jacobi (Leipzig, 1878), the Spanish by P. Herrera (Cádiz, 2006) and the Swedish by Helge Weimarck (Stockholm, 1971).

Into Italian

  • L. Domenichi, Paulo Diacono della Chiesa d'Aquileia della Origine e Fatti dé Re Longobardi, Venice (1548)
  • A. Viviani, Dell' origine e de' fatti de' Longobardi, 2 vols., Udine (1826-28)
  • G. S. Uberti, De' fatti de' Longobardi, Cividale (1899) reprinted in the Biblioteca Popolare Sonzogno, Milan (1915)
  • M. Felisatti, Storia dei Longobardi, Milan (1967)
  • F. Roncoroni, Storia dei Longobardi, Milan (1971)
  • E. Bartolini, Historia Langobardorum, with Latin text, and translation by A. Giacomini, Udine (nd)
  • A. Zanella, Storia dei Longobardi, Milan (1991)
  • L. Capo (ed.), Storia dei Longobardi, Milan (1992).


See also

  • Origo Gentis Langobardorum
    Origo Gentis Langobardorum

    The Origo Gentis Langobardorum is a short 7th century text, detailing a legend of the origin of the Lombards, and their history up to the rule of Perctarit ....


External links

  • (in Latin)