Editing Regino of Prüm (section)

===''Chronicon''===
Regino's most influential work is his ''Chronicon'', a [[universal history (genre)|universal history]] from the [[Incarnation]] of [[Jesus Christ]] to 906 AD. The ''Chronicon''{{'}}s focus is a history of the Carolingian empire that connected the rise and fall of the Carolingian dynasty with his own affairs.<ref>Stuart Airlie, "Sad stories of the death of kings": Narrative Patterns and Structures of Authority in Regino of Prum's Chronicle." in ''Narrative and History in the Early Medieval West'', (eds) Elizabeth M. Tyler and Ross Balzaretti (Turnhout, 2006), p. 109.</ref> The work's intended recipient is unknown, but may have been [[Louis the Child]] ({{reign|900|911}}), and was dedicated to [[Adalberon (bishop of Augsburg)|Adalberon]], [[bishop of Augsburg]] (†909), someone personally close to the child king.{{citation needed|date=July 2024}} The ''Chronicon'' was later continued from 906 until 967 (known as the ''Continuatio Reginonis''), and edited by a certain Adalbert, a monk at the Benedictine [[St. Maximin's Abbey, Trier|monastery of Saint Maximinus]] in [[Trier]], possibly [[Adalbert, Archbishop of Magdeburg]].{{citation needed|date=July 2024}}

The first book contains broad narratives on the fortunes of various rulers and church men, which are organised against the regnal spans of Roman and Byzantine emperors, and ends in the year 741 with the death of [[Charles Martel]]. It consists of extracts taken from [[Bede]], [[Paulus Diaconus]], the ''Deeds of Dagobert'', the [[Annals of Saint-Amand]] and the chronicle ''[[Liber Historiae Francorum]]''.  Of the second book (741–906), the first part is a long excerpt of the ''[[Royal Frankish Annals]]'' down to 813. From 814 onwards, however, the work is made up of eyewitness accounts, Paulus Diaconus and in relation to events in [[Lotharingia]], the work of [[Adventius, Bishop of Metz]].<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = West | first1 = Charles | year = 2016 | title = Knowledge of the past and judgement of history in tenth century Trier: Regino of Prum and the lost manuscript of Bishop Adventius of Metz | url = http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/90610/1/Knowledge%20of%20the%20past%20and%20the%20judgement%20of%20history%20in%20tenth-century%20Trier.pdf| journal = Early Medieval Europe | volume = 24 | issue = 2 | pages = 143–147 | doi = 10.1111/emed.12138 }}</ref> In the later sections of book two, Regino discusses and deals with the various kings attempting to take power in [[Lotharingia]], in particular criticising Zwentibald, the son of powerful magnate and later king [[Arnulf, Duke of Bavaria]].<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Maclean | first1 = Simon | year = 2013 | title = Shadow Kingdom: Lotharingia and the Frankish World, c.850-c.1050 | journal = History Compass | volume = 11 | issue = 6| pages = 447–452 | doi = 10.1111/hic3.12049 | hdl = 10023/4176 | hdl-access = free }}</ref> The chronological accuracy of the work has been questioned, however; Regino had adapted and changed Bede's [[Anno Mundi]] dating system to [[Anno Domini]] to reflect the works starting point of the Incarnation of Jesus.<ref>Simon Maclean, ''History and Politics in Late Carolingian and Ottonian Europe: the Chronicle of Regino of Prum and Adalbert of Magdeburg'', (Manchester, 2009) pp. 20–22.</ref> The work is deemed important by modern scholars due to the fact it is the first chronicle to conventionally apply the AD dating system.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Maclean | first1 = Simon | year = 2009 | title = Insinuation, Censorship and the Struggle for Late Carolingian Lotharingia in Regino of Prum's Chronicle | journal = English Historical Review | volume = 506 | page = 6 }}</ref>

Regino's chronicle is an important source on [[History of Bulgaria|Bulgarian medieval history]] in that it is the only contemporary text hinting at the organisation of the [[Council of Preslav]] ("… <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[Boris I of Bulgaria|Boris I]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> gathered his entire empire and placed his younger son <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[Simeon I of Bulgaria|Simeon I]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> as [[List of Bulgarian rulers|prince]]…").{{citation needed|date=July 2024}}

Historians who made use of Regino's chronicle include [[Cosmas of Prague]].<ref>Marie Bláhová, "The Function of the Saints in Early Bohemian Historical Writing." In ''The Making of Christian Myths in the Periphery of Latin Christendom (ca 1000–1300)'', ed. Lars Boje Mortensen. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanums Forlag, 2006. p. 97.</ref>

The chronicle was [[editio princeps|first printed]] at Mainz in 1521.{{citation needed|date=July 2024}}