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Saints of The Christianization Age of Central Europe

This volume is the first of two containing hagiographical narratives from medieval Central Europe. The lives of the saints in this volume, from the tenth to eleventh centuries, written not much later, are telling witnesses for the process of Christianization of Bohemia, Poland, Hungary and Dalmatia. Most of them became patrons of their region and highly venerated throughout the Middle Ages. The volume presents the first English translation of a legend of each of these saints with the most recent critical edition of the Latin original and prefaces discussing the textual tradition. In an appendix the extensive hagiographical literature of the saints is being critically surveyed.

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Saints of The Christianization Age of Central Europe

This volume is the first of two containing hagiographical narratives from medieval Central Europe. The lives of the saints in this volume, from the tenth to eleventh centuries, written not much later, are telling witnesses for the process of Christianization of Bohemia, Poland, Hungary and Dalmatia. Most of them became patrons of their region and highly venerated throughout the Middle Ages. The volume presents the first English translation of a legend of each of these saints with the most recent critical edition of the Latin original and prefaces discussing the textual tradition. In an appendix the extensive hagiographical literature of the saints is being critically surveyed.

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Saints of The Christianization Age of Central Europe

Saints of The Christianization Age of Central Europe

Saints of The Christianization Age of Central Europe

Saints of The Christianization Age of Central Europe

Overview

This volume is the first of two containing hagiographical narratives from medieval Central Europe. The lives of the saints in this volume, from the tenth to eleventh centuries, written not much later, are telling witnesses for the process of Christianization of Bohemia, Poland, Hungary and Dalmatia. Most of them became patrons of their region and highly venerated throughout the Middle Ages. The volume presents the first English translation of a legend of each of these saints with the most recent critical edition of the Latin original and prefaces discussing the textual tradition. In an appendix the extensive hagiographical literature of the saints is being critically surveyed.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9786155225208
Publisher: Central European University Press
Publication date: 11/12/2012
Pages: 280
Product dimensions: 6.30(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Klaniczay is University Professor of Medieval Studies at the Central European University, Permanent Fellow of Collegium Budapest

Table of Contents

General Editors' Preface vii

Abbreviations ix

List of Illustrations xi

Ian Wood The Hagiography of Conversion 1

Passion of Saint Wenceslas by Gumpold of Mantua (Marina Miladinov) 17

Life of Saint Adalbert Bishop of Prague and Martyr (Cristian Gaspar) 77

Life of the Five Brethren by Bruno of Querfurt (Marina Miladinov) 183

Lives of the Holy Hermits Zoerard the Confessor and Benedict the Martyr by Blessed Maurus, Bishop of Pécs (Marina Miladinov) 315

The Deeds of Blessed Gaudentius, Bishop of Osor (Marina Miladinov, with a preface by Zrinka Nikolic) 339

Select Bibliography 363

Select Hagiography of the Saints of this Volume 381

Index of Proper Names 395

Index of Places 403

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