Monumenta Germaniae Historica

Name running of the Deutsches Institute für Erforschung of Mittelalters , founded in 1819 by Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom Stein in the context of German romantic nationalism as still testifies to it its currency Sanctus amor patriae dat animum . The institute is currently localized with Munich.

The expression is especially used to indicate the publication of sources having milked in theory to the history of Germany. Actually, the MGH constitute the edition of reference for a big part of the texts of the High Western Middle Ages, and a powerful symbol of the German scholarship.

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digital of the MGH, copier, but consultable Version only page by page:

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