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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786314503321

Titolo

Saints of the Christianization age of Central Europe (Tenth-Eleventh century) [[electronic resource] =] : Vitae sanctorum aetatis conversionis Europae Centralis (Saec. x-xi)  / / edited by Gábor Klaniczay ; translated and annotated by Cristian Gaspar and Marina Miladinov ; with an Introductory essay by Ian Wood

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Budapest, : Central European University Press, 2013

ISBN

9786155225406

615-5225-40-0

1-283-83610-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (420 p.)

Collana

Central European medieval texts, , 1419-7782 ; ; volume 6

Altri autori (Persone)

KlaniczayGábor

Disciplina

274.3/030922

B

Soggetti

Christian saints - Europe, Central

Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)

Europe, Central Church history Early works to 1800

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The hagiography of conversion / Ian Wood -- Passion of Saint Wenceslas by Gumpold of Mantua / Marina Miladinov -- Life of Saint Adalbert Bishop of Prague and Martyr / Cristian Gaspar -- Life of the five brethren by Bruno of Querfurt / Marina Miladinov -- Lives of the Holy Hermits Zoerard the Confessor and Benedict the martyr by Blessed Maurus, Bishop of Pecs / Marina Miladinov -- Life of Blessed Gaudentius, Bishop of Osor / Marina Miladinov, with a preface by Zrinka Nikolic.

Sommario/riassunto

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.