Note 1 — Chapter II · THE SAXON KINGS OF THE GERMANS, AND REVIVAL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE BY OTTO I. (919–973)[1]

Giesebrecht’s Geschichte der deutschen Kaiserzeit gives a full account of German and Italian history from 919 to the latter part of the reign of Frederick I. Richter and Kohl’s Annalen des deutschen Reichs im Zeitalter der Ottonen und der Salier, includes an excellent series of extracts from the original sources. Prutz’s Staatengeschichte des Abendlands im Mittelalter (vol. i. Oncken’s Series) is a popular working-up of the whole period. A French account is in Zeller’s Histoire de l’Allemagne; while Lavisse and Rambaud’s Histoire générale du ive Siècle à nos jours, vols. i. and ii., is certainly the best presentation of the general history of the early Middle Ages. Bryce’s remarkable essay on The Holy Roman Empire, and Fisher’s detailed Medieval Empire are the best books in English. The facts are related in Henderson’s History of Germany during the Middle Ages, and in Milman’s History of Latin Christianity. Gregorovius’ Geschichte der Stadt Rom im Mittelalter is now translated.