Vitae sanctorum aetatis conversionis Europae Centralis (saec. X-XI) = Saints of the Christianization Age of Central Europe (Tenth-Eleventh Centuries)

422 Pages·2013·9.686 MB·English, Latin

by  Gábor Klaniczay (ed.), Cristian Gaşpar, Marina Miladinov (transl.)

VITAE SANCTORUM AETATIS CONVERSIONIS
EUROPAE CENTRALIS

(SAEC. X-XI)
SAINTS OF THE CHRISTIANIZATION AGE OF
CENTRAL EUROPE
(TENTH-ELEVENTH CENTURIES)
CENTRAL EUROPEAN MEDIEVAL TEXTS
VOLUME 6
General Editors
JÁNOS M. BAK
URSZULA BORKOWSKA
GILES CONSTABLE
GERHARD JARITZ
GÁBOR KLANICZAY
Series Editor
FRANK SCHAER
VITAE SANCTORUM AETATIS
CONVERSIONIS EUROPAE
CENTRALIS (SAEC. X-XI)
SAINTS OF THE
CHRISTIANIZATION AGE OF
CENTRAL EUROPE
(TENTH-ELEVENTH CENTURIES)
Edited by
Gábor Klaniczay
Translated and annotated by
Cristian Gaşpar and Marina Miladinov
With an introductory essay by
Ian Wood
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Saints of the Christianization age of Central Europe (Tenth-Eleventh century) = 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.
pages cm.—(Central European medieval texts, ISSN 1419-7782 ; volume 6)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-6155225208 (hardbound : alk. paper)
1.  Christian saints—Europe, Central—Legends—Early works to 1800. 2. Christian
literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)—Translations into English. 3.  Europe, Cen-
tral—Church history—Early works to 1800.  I. Klaniczay, Gábor. II. Title: Saints of the
Christianization age of Central Europe (Tenth to Twelfth Centuries).
BX4659.E85S255 2012
274.3’030922—dc23
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2012036039
Printed in Hungary by
Prime Rate Kft., Budapest
CONTENTS
General Editors’ Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VII
Abbreviations ................................................... IX
List of Illustrations ......................................... XI
Ian Wood The Hagiography of Conversion ................. 1
Passion of Saint Wenceslas by Gumpold of Mantua
(Marina Miladinov) ................................. 17
Life of Saint Adalbert Bishop of Prague and Martyr
(Cristian Gaşpar) .................................... 77
Life of the Five Brethren by Bruno of Querfurt
(Marina Miladinov) ................................. 183
Lives of the Holy Hermits Zoerard the Confessor and
Benedict the Martyr by Blessed Maurus, Bishop of Pécs
(Marina Miladinov) ................................. 315
The Deeds of Blessed Gaudentius, Bishop of Osor
(Marina Miladinov, with a preface by Zrinka Nikolić) 339
Select Bibliography ......................................... 363
Select Hagiography of the Saints of this Volume ............ 381
Index of Proper Names ..................................... 395
Index of Places .............................................. 403

GENERAL EDITORS’ PREFACE
CEMT does not need to be introduced any more, after the
publication of five volumes, all of which were received positively
by medievalists. Interest in the history of the region and the need
for bi-lingual editions of its narrative sources are not less present
today than they were twelve years ago, when the series started.
However, the present volume—and the planned subsequent one—
are different from the previous ones by containing not one or
two texts, but presenting a kind of anthology of saints’ lives from
medieval Central Europe, and at some points entering more into
philological details of the textual tradition than in the previous
ones.
The selection of the lives in these two volumes aims at representing
major venerated persons of the earlier Middle Ages. We have
chosen for each saint one important legend not yet translated
into English. In the present volume we publish six legends from
the tenth and the eleventh centuries: those of saintly bishops,
hermits and a holy prince—saints of the Christianization age. In
the subsequent volume there will be seven more legends, from the
eleventh to the thirteenth centuries, with more saintly bishops, a
holy abbot and three Hungarian royal saints.
The General Editors are most thankful to Ian Wood not only for
his introductory essay but also for his continuous aid and counsel
in the preparation of this volume. Financial help for the research
and the publication in the framework of the project “Symbols that
Bind and Break Communities – Communicating Sainthood –
Constituting Regions and Nations in East-Central Europe Tenth-
[VII]
VIII GENERAL EDITORS’ PREFACE
Sixteenth Centuries,” from the Hungarian National Research Fund
(OTKA, No. 81446 ), is gratefully acknowledged.
The OTKA project has been an Associated Project to the
international research project sponsored by the European Sci-
ence Foundation “Symbols that Bind and Break Communities:
Saints’ Cults as Stimuli and Expressions of Local, Regional, Nati-
onal and Universalist Identities” (09-EuroCORECODE-FP-004
CULTSYMBOLS), and benefited greatly from this cooperation
with Austrian, Danish, Estonian, and Norwegian colleagues.
Finally, three of the General Editors are bidding farewell to the
readers of this series. We felt that it is time to rotate the board and
therefore the oldest members, János M. Bak, Urszula Borkowska,
and Giles Constable are handing over their place to younger
colleagues who will join the group of Editors for the subsequent
volumes of CEMT.
Budapest, Summer 2012
J.M.B. – U. B. – G. C. – G. J. – G. K.