Hello. I really don't know where else I can ask lol so I hope nobody will mind me writing here. I'm working on a bachelor's thesis right now and I have stumbled upon a problem that requires me to check one german source. Unfortunately it is an old german book in two versions, one from 1590 and the other from 1630, both of which are written in stylized font that makes it absolutely impossible to me to even guess what's written. Oh and I can't speak german anyway lol.
In my thesis one of the subjects is Saint Bruno of Querfurt, who went to Prussia in order to turn pagans into christians. He was beheaded there and all his companions were killed too. Apparently the life and death of saint Bruno was briefly described in one of the works written by Cyriacus Spangenberg, in Quernfurtische Chronika to be exact.
One of the most interesting parts about this chronicle is that, according to one Polish source from 1898 (Samuela Orgelbranda Encyklopedia Powszechna/Universal Encyclopedia of Samuel Orgelbrand), saint Bruno founded a christian church in the Mazovia Province of Poland in the year of 1000.
The thing is though, apparently the chronicle of Spangenberg doesn't have that information and the encyclopedia of Orgelbrand lies.
Because of that I really need someone who could check that book and tell me if it's really true that there is no such information.
Ideally, the best option would be if someone translated the entire text from that book. The story of Bruno takes 5 pages so it's not much to translate.
BUT I gather it might be too much to ask, so if anyone just reads it and checks if there actually is an information about saint Bruno funding church, then I'd be just as happy.
The most important thing is to know if there REALLY is an information that saint Bruno funded a church in the Mazovia Province of Poland.
There is an original 1590 release available on Google as a free e-book https://play.google.com/store/books/...eu_xYQC&rdot=1
The pages I need translated/read are also 124-129. In the e-book they are on pages 134-139.
You can download the 1630 book here: http://digitale.bibliothek.uni-halle...:gbv:3:1-55064
The information about Saint Bruno should be on pages 124-129. The pages are wrongly numbered in the pdf though, so check pages 154-159.
Can anyone help me with that?