On Monday, 19.01.2026, MGH editor Dr Veronica Lukas will present her 2025 critical edition of a series of source texts of great importance for the early history of the city of Regensburg. Fittingly, the book presentation will be in Regensburg. You are heartily invited to attend.
Around 1020, Arnold, a monk of St. Emmeram in Regensburg decided to rewrite the vita of his monastery’s patron saint, updating and expanding the version written 300 years earlier by Bishop Arbeo of Freising († 784). His undertaking encountered considerable resistance in the monastic community, and the turbulent genesis of the work left its traces in the finished text. The first book containing a new vita of St. Emmeram was written by the scholaster Meginfrid of Magdeburg, while Arnold himself contributed two additional books: a collection of miracles reaching up to the time of Bishop Michael of Regensburg (942-972), and a dialogue that begins treating the life of Michael’s successor, saint Wolfgang (972-994) and the further history of the monastery St Emmeram, but later dilates to become a collection of various sorts of edifying tales. The work contains the oldest preserved versions of the vitae of St Wolfgang and St Gunther of Niederaltaich and is a treasure trove of singular information on the history of the monastery St Emmeram and its building.
New publication on St Emmeram - Book Presentation
Monday 19.01.2025, at 6 p.m. in Forum St. Emmeram, Emmeramsplatz 3, 93047 Regensburg. Entrance free of charge. Jointly presented by the Staatliche Bibliothek Regensburg, the Katholische Erwachsenenbildung Regenburg e.V., and the Verein der Freunde von St. Emmeram e.V.
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