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The Medieval Church · c. 1082
The Saxon War
Bruno of Merseburg · 11th century
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What it is
A partisan account of the Saxon revolt against Henry IV, quoting letters and speeches and treating the rebellion as a just resistance to tyranny.
Why it lasted
The fullest narrative of the German civil war that ran alongside the investiture contest.
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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