Saints of the Christianization Age of Central Europe : : Tenth to Eleventh Centuries / / ed. by Gábor Klaniczay.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2013-1998
• MitwirkendeR: Gaşpar, Cristian,; Miladinov, Marina,; Nikolić, Zrinka,
• HerausgeberIn: Klaniczay, Gábor,
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2022]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Central European Medieval Texts
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (418 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- General Editors’ Preface -- Abbreviations -- List of Illustrations -- Ian Wood The Hagiography of Conversion -- Passion of Saint Wenceslas by Gumpold of Mantua -- Life of Saint Adalbert Bishop of Prague and Martyr -- Life of the Five Brethren by Bruno of Querfurt -- Lives of the Holy Hermits Zoerard the Confessor and Benedict the Martyr by Blessed Maurus, Bishop of Pécs -- The Deeds of Blessed Gaudentius, Bishop of Osor -- Select Bibliography -- Select Hagiography of the Saints of this Volume -- Index of Proper Names -- Index of Places