The latest title in the Central European Medieval Texts series contains the lives of saints who were canonized in the eleventh through thirteenth centuries in the newly Christianized countries of Central and Eastern Europe (Bohemia, Poland, Hungary, and Dalmatia). A rejoinder to the earlier volume in the series, the Saints of the Christianization Age of Central Europe (CEMT, Vol. 6), containing hermits, missionaries, and martyrs, this second volume of hagiography is dominated by political or ecclesiastical leaders who became saintly patrons of their region and were highly venerated throughout the Middle Ages.
The legends in the volume present the two Hungarian holy kings Stephen and Ladislas, the holy duke Emeric, the Czech holy abbot Prokop of Sázava, three bishops, the Venetian-Hungarian Gellért of Csanád, the Polish Stanislas of Cracow (both martyrs), and the Dalmatian holy bishop Saint John of Trogir. Each “vita” is published in Latin original with an English translation and with prefaces discussing the textual tradition.
Saints’ lives have been recognized as an invaluable source of information on social and economic history, the history of mentalities and everyday life, cultural history, and, above all, as a special genre with crucial importance and prevalence in medieval literature.
- Cover
- Front matter
- Series title page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- INTRODUCTION: Gábor Klaniczay - Hagiography in Central Europe in the Central Middle Ages
- I. SAINT STEPHEN OF HUNGARY
- Gábor Thoroczkay - Preface
- Vita Sancti Stephani regis (Legenda maior) / Life of King Saint Stephen (Major legend) (transl. Cristian Gaşpar)
- Vita et actus Sancti Stephani regis Pannoniorum (Legenda minor) / Life and Deeds of Saint Stephen, King of the Pannonians(Minor legend) (transl. Cristian Gaşpar)
- Legenda S. Stephani regis ab Hartvico episcopo conscripta / Life of King St. Stephen written by Bishop Hartvic (transl. Nora Berend and Cristian Gaşpar)
- II. SAINT EMERIC
- Gábor Bradács and Dorottya Uhrin - Preface
- Vita Sancti Emerici ducis / Life of Duke Saint Emeric (transl. Cristian Gaşpar)
- III. SAINT GERARD
- Cristian Gaşpar and Gábor Klaniczay – Preface
- Passio beatissimi Gerardi (Legenda minor) / Passion of the Most Blessed Gerard (Minor legend) (transl. Cristian Gaşpar)
- De Sancto Gerhardo episcopo Morosenensi et martyre regni Ungariae (Legenda maior) / On Saint Gerard Bishop of Marosvár and Martyr of the Kingdom of Hungary (Major legend) (transl. János M. Bak)
- IV. SAINT PROCOPIUS OF SÁZAVA
- Petr Sommer - Preface
- Vita sancti Procopii minor / Minor Life of Saint Procopius(transl. Cristian Gaşpar)
- V. SAINT LADISLAUS OF HUNGARY
- Gábor Klaniczay - Preface
- De Sancto Ladizlao rege Ungarie / On Saint Ladislaus Kingof Hungary (transl. Cristian Gaşpar)
- VI. SAINT JOHN OF TROGIR
- Ana Marinković - Preface
- Vita S. Joannis ep. Traguriensis / Life of St John of Trogir (transl. Marina Miladinov [Schumann])
- VII. SAINT STANISLAUS OF CRACOW
- Stanislava Kuzmová - Preface
- Vita Sancti Stanislai Episcopi Cracoviensis (Vita minor) / Life of Saint Stanislaus, Bishop of Cracow (Minor life) (transl. Cristian Gaşpar)
- Select Bibliography
- Select Hagiography of the Saints in this Volume
- St. Stephen
- St. Emeric
- St. Gerard
- St. Procopius
- St. Ladislaus
- St. John of Trogir
- St. Stanislaus
- Contributors to the volume
- Index
- Back cover
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