Berno of Reichenau
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Berno, abbot of Reichenau (ca. 978 — 7 June 1048) was appointed abbot of Reichenau by Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor in 1008. Following the reforms initiated under Abbot Immo, who imposed the Benedictine rule, under Berno's enlightened guidance the abbey reached its peak as a centre of learning, with a productive scriptorium, as a centre of Bendictine monasticism and eleventh-century liturgical and musical reforms in the German churches.[1]. At Reichenau he erected the tall western tower and transept that stand today at Reichenau-Mittelzell.[2] One of his most famous students was Hermann von Reichenau, who transmitted Arabic mathematics and astronomy to central Europe. Politically the abbot cleaved to his patrons Henry and to Henry III, duke of Bavaria and eventually Emperor.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Hartmut Möller, "Zur Reichenauer Offiziumstradition der Jahrtausendwende" Studia Musicologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 29.1/4 (1987), pp. 35-61.
- ^ The monograph on the constructions and reconstructions at Reichenau is Alfons Zettler, Die Frühen Klosterbauten der Reichenau: Ausgrabungen-Schriftquellen—St. Galler Klosterplan (Sigmaringen) 1988.
[edit] References
- Roland Rappmann, Alfons Zettler. 1998. Die Reichenauer Mönchsgemeinschaft und ihr Totengedenken im frühen Mittelalter (Sigmaringen : Thorbecke) ISBN 3-7995-7355-0
