Central European Medieval Texts - CEU Press
The Sanctity of the Leaders: Holy Kings, Princes, Bishops and Abbots from Central Europe (11th to 13th Centuries)
1st Edition
Edited
By Gábor Klaniczay, Ildikó Csepregi
May 16, 2023
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 ...
Cosmas of Prague: The Chronicle of the Czechs
1st Edition
Edited
By János M. Bak, Pavlína Rychterová
September 15, 2020
The Latin-English bilingual volume presents the text of The Chronicle of the Czechs by Cosmas of Prague. Cosmas was born around 1045, educated in Liège, upon his return to Bohemia, he got married as well as became a priest. In 1086 he was appointed prebendary, a senior member of clergy in ...
Studies on the Illuminated Chronicle
1st Edition
Edited
By János M. Bak, László Veszprémy
July 01, 2018
The present volume of studies—a joint publication with the National Széchényi Library, Budapest—is the first Subsidium of the Central European Medieval Text series, accompanying CEMT vol. IX on the Illuminated Chronicle, composed in the fourteenth century at the royal court of Louis I of Hungary. ...
The Illuminated Chronicle: Chronicle of the Deeds of the Hungarians from the Fourteenth-Century Illuminated Codex
1st Edition
Edited
By János M. Bak, László Veszprémy
July 01, 2018
The Illuminated Chronicle was composed in 1358 in the international artistic style at the royal court of Louis I of Hungary. Its text, presented here in a new edition and translation, is the most complete record of Hungary's medieval historical tradition, going back to the eleventh century and ...
The Oldest Legend: Acts of the Canonization Process, and Miracles of Saint Margaret of Hungary
1st Edition
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By Gábor Klaniczay, Bence Péterfi, Ildikó Csepregi
January 10, 2018
This bilingual volume (Latin text with English translation) is the second in the series presenting hagiographical narratives from medieval Central Europe. It contains the most important hagiographical corpus of medieval Hungarian history: that of Saint Margaret (1242–1270), daughter of King Béla IV...
Saints of the Christianization Age of Central Europe: Tenth to Eleventh Centuries
1st Edition
Edited
By Gábor Klaniczay
October 01, 2012
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...
Anonymus and Master Roger
1st Edition
Edited
By Martyn Rady, János M. Bak, László Veszprémy
July 01, 2010
Contains two very different narratives; both are for the first time presented in an updated Latin text with an annotated English translation. An anonymous notary of King Bela of Hungary wrote a Latin Gesta Hungarorum (ca. 1200/10), a literary composition about the mythical origins of the Hungarians...
Gesta principum Polonorum: The Deeds of the Princes of the Poles
1st Edition
Edited
By János M. Bak, Frank Schaer
May 10, 2003
Written around 1112-1116, The Deeds of the Princes of the Poles is the oldest narrative source from Poland, formerly attributed to 'Gallus,' a French monk. The anonymous author tells the ancient history of Poland down to the reign of Boleslaw III. The chronicle contains valuable information on ...
Autobiography of Emperor Charles IV and his Legend of St Wenceslas
1st Edition
By Balázs Nagy
February 10, 2001
One of the few autobiographies to have survived from the Middle Ages, this life history of one of the most influential rulers of the fourteenth century, Charles IV of Bohemia, covers his life from birth until his election as King of Germany in 1346. Charles IV describes his childhood, spent mainly ...
Gesta Hungarorum: The Deeds of the Hungarians
1st Edition
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By László Veszprémy, Simon Kézai
January 01, 1999
Simon of Kéza was a court cleric of the Hungarian King, Ladislas IV (1272-1290). He travelled extensively in Italy, France and Germany and culled the epic and poetic material from a broad range of readings.Written between 1282-1285, the Gesta Hungarorum is an ingenious and imaginative historical ...