16/11/2012
Saints of the Christianization Age of Central Europe (Tenth-Eleventh Centuries)
Vitae sanctorum aetatis conversionis Europae Centralis (Saec. X-XI)
Edited by Gábor Klaniczay
Translated and annotated by Cristian Gaşpar and Marina Miladinov
With an introductory essay by Ian Wood
The sixth volume in the Central European Medieval Texts Series from CEU Press was presented at the conference in Dubrovnik. 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.
The volume contains:
An introductory essay by 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 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 Hagiography of the Saints of this Volume
More information about the new volume and earlier volumes in the series is found on the website of the CEU Press.