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@inbook{2396889,
author = {Kalhous, David},
address = {Turnhout},
booktitle = {The Cult of Saints and Legitimization of Elite Power in East Central and Northern Europe up to 1300},
doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/M.CPMH-EB.5.136923},
editor = {Grzegorz Pac, Steffen Hope, and Jón Viðar Sigurðsson},
keywords = {medieval hagiography; st. Wenceslas; legitimacy; identities; monasticism; literacy; East Central Europe; manuscript studies},
howpublished = {tištěná verze "print"},
language = {eng},
location = {Turnhout},
isbn = {978-2-503-61108-2},
pages = {241-266},
publisher = {Brepols},
title = {Many Lives of One Man. Strategies for Building Legitimacy through the Story of St Wenceslas in Early and High Medieval Hagiography (940s–1260s)},
year = {2024}
}
TY - CHAP
ID - 2396889
AU - Kalhous, David
PY - 2024
TI - Many Lives of One Man. Strategies for Building Legitimacy through the Story of St Wenceslas in Early and High Medieval Hagiography (940s–1260s)
VL - Comparative Perspectives on Medieval History, 2
PB - Brepols
CY - Turnhout
SN - 9782503611082
KW - medieval hagiography
KW - st. Wenceslas
KW - legitimacy
KW - identities
KW - monasticism
KW - literacy
KW - East Central Europe
KW - manuscript studies
N2 - St. Wenceslas (921-935) and the transformation of his image in medieval hagiography and historiography is thanks to the high number and density of existing texts an excellent field for research on the analysis of the competing claims. The following analysis will be based primarily on St.-Wenceslas hagiography. Therefore, it will be important to introduce the existing dossier of the texts. The large group of hagiographic texts was written among other things to support the claims of particular groups of people. Although those claims must not have been explicitly expressed in the texts, they, at least, introduce us to the contemporary discourse (“Gedankenwelt”) and help us to understand the contemporary “sociology”. Comparison of the preserved texts will help us to sort out common elements and reveal contemporary discourse on one side, on the other side, it promises to recognizing specifics of each of the texts, which will bring us closer to the particular authorial intention of each of the hagiographers and their specific strategies of building legitimacy for particular claims. Finally, the results based on the analysis of the texts and their comparison will be questioned from the perspective of the intended and real audience – here, our main source of information will be the manuscript transmission of the texts.
ER -
KALHOUS, David. Many Lives of One Man. Strategies for Building Legitimacy through the Story of St Wenceslas in Early and High Medieval Hagiography (940s–1260s) (Many Lives of One Man Strategies for Building Legitimacy through the Story of St Wenceslas in Early and High Medieval Hagiography (940s–1260s)). In Grzegorz Pac, Steffen Hope, and Jón Viðar Sigurðsson. \textit{The Cult of Saints and Legitimization of Elite Power in East Central and Northern Europe up to 1300}. Turnhout: Brepols, 2024, p.~241-266. Comparative Perspectives on Medieval History, 2. ISBN~978-2-503-61108-2. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1484/M.CPMH-EB.5.136923.
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