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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.
List of contents
General Editors' Preface, Abbreviations, List of Illustrations, Ian Wood The Hagiography of Conversion, Passion of Saint Wenceslas by Gumpold of Mantua (Marina Miladinov), Life of Saint Adalbert Bishop of Prague and Martyr (Cristian Ga?par), 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 Pécs (Marina Miladinov), The Deeds of Blessed Gaudentius, Bishop of Osor (Marina Miladinov, with a preface by Zrinka Nikoli?), Select Bibliography, Select Hagiography of the Saints of this Volume, Index of Proper Names, Index of Places
About the author
Cristian-Nicolae Gaspar is lecturer at the Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Department of Medieval History of Central European University.
Marina Miladinov is lecturer of Church history and Latin at the Theological Faculty "Matthias Flacius Illyricus" in Zagreb. She is also one of the founding members and president of Hagiotheca-Croatian Hagiography Society and a free-lance translator in the fields of religious studies, arts, and humanities. Her interests reside in hagiography and the Reformation critique of the veneration of saints.
Gábor Klaniczay is University Professor of Medieval Studies at the Central European University.
