{{Short description|1430 history of Bern by Conrad Justinger}} {{Italic title}} The '''''Bernese Chronicle''''' (German: ''Chronik der Stadt Bern'') contains information about the early history of the city of Bern, Switzerland.
The ''Bernese Chronicle'' was composed in 1430 by Conrad Justinger from Bern.<ref name="zahnd">Zahnd, Urs M. “Erläuterungen.” 12 April 2008. {{cite web |url=http://www.digibern.ch/justinger/ |title=Berner Chronik des Conrad Justinger |access-date=2008-05-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080606094926/http://www.digibern.ch/justinger/ |archive-date=2008-06-06 }}</ref> According to Müller, Justinger was entrusted by the Bernese council under the chairmanship of its mayor Rudolf Hofmeister to chronicle the history of his hometown Bern from its foundation until the present time.<ref name="müller_758">Müller, P. L. “Konrad Justinger.” ''Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie'' 14 (1881): 758–759.</ref>
By Justinger's own account, the ''Bernese Chronicle'' is primarily based on documents that were stored in the archives of the city of Bern in the early 14th century.<ref name="müller_758"/> Furthermore, Justinger used the ''Narratio conflictus apud Laupen'' (Latin: ‘Narrative of the conflict at Laupen’) as well as the annals of the cathedral of Bern (''Cronica de Berno'') as sources for his chronicle.<ref name="müller_758"/>
Even if Justinger's monumental work appears to have been considerably influenced by older chronicles from Strasbourg, Basel, Konstanz and Zürich, researchers are generally agreed that the ''Bernese Chronicle'' constitutes the earliest record of the cruelties of the Habsburg governors towards the population of the Forest Cantons.<ref name="zahnd"/>
Justinger's ''Bernese Chronicle'' had a deep impact on the historiography of Switzerland.<ref name="zahnd"/> Although the original manuscript of the ''Bernese Chronicle'' is lost with the exception of 2½ leaves, its text has, nevertheless, been preserved in a single manuscript contained in the archive of the University of Jena.
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==Further reading== * {{cite book|editor=John M. Jeep|title=Medieval Germany: an Encyclopedia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p4uHav3mZLsC|year= 2001|publisher=Garland Publishing |isbn=0-8240-7644-3|chapter=German City Chronicles}}
== External links == *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070114140429/http://www.digibern.ch/justinger/BernerChronik_1871/03_Justinger_Conrad_Berner_Chronik_Einleitung.pdf ''Einleitung'']. *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070606205241/http://www.digibern.ch/justinger/BernerChronik_1871/Justinger_Conrad_Berner_Chronik_Gesamtwerk.pdf ''Die Berner Chronik des Conrad Justinger''].
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