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The Medieval Church · 841–843
The Histories
Nithard · c. 800–845
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What it is
A grandson of Charlemagne records the civil war among his grandsons, and quotes the Strasbourg oaths verbatim in both the Romance and Germanic vernaculars.
Why it lasted
Contemporary history by a participant, and the earliest surviving text in French and one of the earliest in German.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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