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.
General Editors’ Preface
Abbreviations
List of illustrations
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 Gaşpar)
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)
Life of Blessed Gaudentius, Bishop of Osor (Marina Miladinov, with a preface by Zrinka Nikolić)
Select Bibliography
Select Hagiography of the saints of this volume
Index of Names