Siegfried I of Mainz, who encroached on the traditional rights and prerogatives of Hersfeld and other monasteries. Lambert's assessments, especially of Henry's Walk to Canossa, dominated the German historical image up to the times of the Kulturkampf in the nineteenth century. On the other hand, German historians trained in the positivistic methods of comparative source criticism taught that Lampert was a strongly biased, partisan writer who could not be trusted for an objective account of the reign of Henry IV. Oswald Holder-Egger himself called Lambert an outright fabulist in some instances. Scholars at this time held critical objectivity to be the highest value in a historical source and Lambert, along with many other medieval writers, failed to meet this standard. While they acknowledged Lambert provided important details for certain events and dates, his own view of history and opinions about some matters could not be accepted. Today, however, historians try to approach medieval historiography on its own terms and in its own contexts, rather than impose modern standards of objectivity on medieval authors. Modern scholars recognize Lambert as an important voice representing the conservative views of the regional aristocracy and elite monasticism in a turbulent period in the kingdom's history. Notes External links Lambert of Hersfeld at the Catholic Encyclopedia (with up-to-date references and bibliography) Extracts from the Annals of Lambert of Hersfeld References Hans Delbrück, Uber die Glaubwurdigkeit Lamberts von Hersfeld (Bonn, 1873) August Eigenbrodt, Lampert von Hersfeld und die neuere Quellenforschung (Cassel, 1896) Leopold von Ranke, Zür Kritik frankisch-deutscher Reichsannalisten (Berlin, 1854) I.S. Robinson (trans.), The Annals of Lampert of Hersfeld (Manchester, 2015) Wolfgang Stammler (ed.), "Lampert von Hersfeld, in: Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters. Verfasserlexikon vol. 5 (Berlin/New York 1985), cols. 514–520 Edmund E. Stengel, "Lampert von Hersfeld. Der erste Abt von Hasungen," in Aus Verfassungs- und Landesgeschichte, Festschrift für Theodor Mayer, vol. 2 (1955), pp. 245–258. Tilman Struve, "Lampert von Hersfeld. Persönlichkeit und Weltbild eines Geschichtsschreibers am Beginn des Investiturstreits," in: Hessisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte 19 (1969), pp. 1–123 and 20 (1970), pp. 32–142 Wilhelm Wattenbach, Deutschlands Geschichtsquellen Band ii. (Berlin, 1906) 1088 deaths 11th-century German historians Medieval Latin historical texts German chroniclers Year of birth uncertain 1020s births German male non-fiction writers 11th-century Latin writers 11th-century German writers