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Hildebrand's Alexander is a compilation of mostly humanist chronicles and stories about Alexander the Great, whose main sources are Johannes Aventin's Baierische Chronik and Johann Hartlieb's Alexander. The combination of these two elements is extraordinary, given Aventin's philological criticism of Hartlieb. Secondary sources are Plutarch's Vitae parallelae and Johann Carion's Chronica (both probably in German translations); and Hartmann Schedel's Weltchronik. Hildebrand's characterization of Alexander particularly ambivalent, his depiction balanced between a tyrant and a peaceful emperor ruling for the ordinary people. This life of Alexander gives an important role to the ancient Germans, and so the narrative provides a story of the German nation as well, confronting humanist approaches to the nation with older concepts of translatio imperii and imperium.