A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . Hisgrandmother was a Bur-gundian, who had becomeaccustomed to life in It-aly. Thus the boy hadabsorbed too much of theGreek, Italian, and Ro-mance elements, while tlieSaxon character (andhence the German also)was alien to him. Nev-ertheless, his guardians had wished in educating him to give theGerman side of his nature the proper development. He was broughtup in Saxony, under the direction of a Saxon, Count Hoiko. Buthe seems to have been repelled by the harsh and uncultivated char-acter of the Saxon noble
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . Hisgrandmother was a Bur-gundian, who had becomeaccustomed to life in It-aly. Thus the boy hadabsorbed too much of theGreek, Italian, and Ro-mance elements, while tlieSaxon character (andhence the German also)was alien to him. Nev-ertheless, his guardians had wished in educating him to give theGerman side of his nature the proper development. He was broughtup in Saxony, under the direction of a Saxon, Count Hoiko. Buthe seems to have been repelled by the harsh and uncultivated char-acter of the Saxon nobles and the half-heathenish coarseness of theSaxon people. Next to Willegis of Mayence, the person who tookthe most important part in his education was Bishop Bernward ofIlildesheim (993-1022), who was also a Saxon, and was a partisanof the Cluniacs. This man seems to have fostered in his pupil theinclination to religious meditation, to painful anxiety about hisspiritual welfare, and to asceticism. Tlie Byzantine element inOttos character, which had been inherited from his mother, also. Fig. 76. — Imperial ttual uf Otto III. (Frum auimpression in the British Museum.) PLAT
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