Vita Procopii minor. A basic source for the history of the Sázava Monastery and early medieval Bohemia

0564180 - ARÚ 2023 RIV HU eng J - Journal Article
Sommer, Petr
Vita Procopii minor. A basic source for the history of the Sázava Monastery and early medieval Bohemia.
Annual of Medieval Studies at CEU. Roč. 28, č. 2022 (2022), s. 229-248. ISSN 1219-0616
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA19-17636S
Institutional support: RVO:67985912
Keywords : monastery * hagiography * medieval sources
OECD category: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
Method of publishing: Open access
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Vita minor Procopii is an authentic early medieval Latin source of Bohemian origin, probably from the 11th century. It is a very important part of the source chain documenting the beginning of the Bohemian medieval regnum and the time of the founding of the earliest Bohemian monasteries. It testifies to the time of Christianization of Czech society and its permeation by the new Christian culture. The study disputes the current efforts of some historians to question the dating of this source and its primacy in the series of the so-called Procopian legend.
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