Neustrian Benedictine monk and poet based in Paris (c.850-c.923)
Abbo Cernuus ("the Crooked"), Abbo Parisiensis, or Abbo of Saint-Germain (c. 850 – c. 923) was a Neustrian Benedictine monk and poet of the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris. He was born about the middle of the ninth century.
Abbo was present at the Siege of Paris by the Vikings in 885–886. He was the only eyewitness who wrote a description of it, in Latin verse, with an account of subsequent events to 896, the so-called De bellis Parisiacæ urbis or Bella Parisiacæ urbis ("Wars of the City of Paris"). Abbo also left some sermons for the instruction of clerics in Paris and Poitiers (Patrologia Latina, CXXXII).
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mangonels in its account of the siege of Tortosa (808–809). In the 890s, AbboCernuus described mango or manganaa used at the Siege of Paris (885–886) which...
in the late 9th century, AbboCernuus described mangana throwing large stones while catapultae threw pots of melted led. Abbo also mentioned catapultae...
Naum of Preslav in Bulgaria. Development of the Cyrillic Alphabet. 885: AbboCernuus becomes witness to the Siege of Paris by Vikings. 888: The Carolingian...
bellis Parisiacae urbis (The Wars of the City of Paris), in Latin, by AbboCernuus (890s) Liber Pontificalis Patrologia Latina vols. 102–132: Smaragdus...
consecration of cities and regions dates back at least to the 9th century, when AbboCernuus of Saint-Germain-des-Prés composed a poem in which he attributed the...
German 880s or 890s: Ludwigslied and Georgslied in Old High German 890s: AbboCernuus, De bellis Parisiacae urbis (The Wars of the City of Paris), in Latin...
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