Annales Alamannici

The Annales Alamannici provide one of the earliest records of Medieval Europe available.

Spread over several Swabian monasteries, the annals were continued independently in several places, in the Reichenau Abbey up to 939 (continued by Hermannus Contractus), in Abbey of Saint Gall up to 926.

They depict a limited number of events, in short prose, but their value to scholars is in their medieval representational style.

However, in recent years, historians such as Hayden White have argued that the style of the chronicles depict a worldview that is distinctly medieval where "things happen to people rather than one in which people do things."

For that reason, they provide insight into the medieval mind and what things the people of the Dark Ages considered important.