Frutolf of Michelsberg
Frutolf of Michelsberg (died 17 January 1103) was a monk in Michelsberg Abbey in Bamberg, Germany, of which he became prior. He was probably a native of Bavaria. Frutolf was possibly a teacher of the quadrivium in the monastery, but principally a librarian and manuscript copyist.
Frutolf of Michelsberg
- Died
- 1103
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- monk · historian · music theorist · writer · priest
- Known for
- Chronica · Breviarium de musica · Tonarius
- Languages
- medieval Latin · Old High German
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Frutolf of Michelsberg (died 17 January 1103) was a monk in Michelsberg Abbey in Bamberg, Germany, of which he became prior. He was probably a native of Bavaria. Frutolf was possibly a teacher of the quadrivium in the monastery, but principally a librarian and manuscript copyist.
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In this capacity he was responsible for a substantial increase in the stock of the Michelsberg library. Some of the manuscripts he copied are still extant. He was also an author, writing in Latin. His "Chronicle of the World" (Chronica) is among the most complete and best-organised of the early Middle Ages. It is also fairly certain that a "Breviary of Music" (Breviarium de musica) is by him. An unedited liturgical treatise entitled De officiis divinis (On the divine offices) survives in Frutolf's own hand in Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek, Msc. He may also have written De rhithmomachie, a work concerning a popular medieval mathematical and strategy based board game. He developed a critical view of history and awareness of anachronism, among other things pointing out that "some songs as 'vulgar fables' made Theoderic the Great, Attila and Ermanaric into contemporaries, when any reader of Jordanes knew that this was not the case".
Frutolf of Michelsberg is recorded with the occupation music theorist. Recorded as monk, historian, music theorist, writer and priest.
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Frutolf of Michelsberg died on 17 January 1103.
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- 1.The Uses of the Past in the Early Middle Ages, page 245, Yitzhak Hen, Matthew Innes, Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 9
- Waitz, G. (ed.), 1844: Ekkehardi Uraugiensis Chronica, MGH SS 6, 33-210. Stuttgart: Monumenta Germaniae Historica (online)
- Schmale, Franz-Josef (ed.), 1972: Frutolfs und Ekkehards Chroniken und die anonyme Kaiserchronik. in I. Schmale-Ott: Ausgewählte Quellen zur deutschen Geschichte des Mittelalters (Freiherr-vom-Stein-Gedächtnisausgabe), vol. 15, 1972; includes inter alia Einführung zu Frutolf, pp. 4–19; Frutolfs Chronik, pp. 46–121 (Latin/German text from the year 1000 onwards)
- Schmale, F.-J., Schmale-Ott (eds.), MGH 33
- McCarthy, T. J. H., Music, scholasticism and reform: Salian Germany, 1024–1125 (Manchester, 2009), pp. 40–3, 94–108.
- McCarthy, T. J. H., ‘Frutolf of Michelsberg’s Chronicle, the schools of Bamberg and the transmission of imperial polemic’, Haskins Society Journal 23 (2011), 51–70.
- McCarthy, T. J. H., Chronicles of the Investiture Contest: Frutolf of Michelsberg and his continuators (Manchester, 2014). .
- McCarthy, T. J. H., ‘Quos manu sua pene omnes ipse scripsit: Frutolf of Michelsberg’s legacy to a Bamberg scriptorium’, in A. Nievergelt et al. (eds), Scriptorium. Wesen, Funktion, Eigenheiten (Comité international de Paléographie latine, XVIII. Internationaler Kongress St. Gallen 11.–14. September 2013; Munich, 2015), pp. 325–37.
- McCarthy, T. J. H., ‘Scriptural allusion in the crusading accounts of Frutolf of Michelsberg and his continuators’, in E. Lapina and N. Morton (eds), The uses of the Bible in crusader sources (Leiden, 2017), pp. 152–75.
- McCarthy, T. J. H., The continuations of Frutolf of Michelsberg's Chronicle (Schriften der Monumenta Germaniae Historica 74; Wiesbaden, 2019).
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