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Abduction 125 Acta Sanctorum 9–10 St. Adalbert (Adalbert-Vojtěch) (983 Index Abduction 125 Comites 47 Acta sanctorum 9–10 Environnment 111 (n. 72) St. Adalbert (Adalbert-Vojtěch) (983–997), History 25 bishop of Prague and martyr 10, 16, 26, Legends 19, 48, 86 32, 44, 46, 57, 60, 72, 91–92, 111, 114–115, Myths 88 117, 119 (n. 111), 130 Overlodship over 34 Analysis, external 2, 132, 138 Paganism 92 Analysis, internal 2, 132, 138 Prince 30, 115 Annals of Fulda / Annales Fuldenses 47, Sources 92 98, 133 Tradition 60 Annals of Prague (13th c.) 61 Yearbooks 94 Aquinas, Thomas (1225–1274), philosopher Boleslav, Stará, hillfort in Central Bohemia, and theologian 87, 92–93, 104 since 1046 seat of collegiate chapter 72 Athanasius a S. Iosepho (Sandrich, Eliáš), (n. 41), 85 (n. 148) Bohemian scholar of Baroque era 12–13, Boleslav I (935–972), Prince of Bohemia 10, 43 (n. 151), 112 11, 30, 46, 48 (n. 48), 115 St. Augustine (354–430), scholar and bishop Boleslav II (972–999), Prince of Bohemia 30–31, 34, 36, 38, 47 (n. 188), 59, 61, 70 10, 44 Authority 7, 10 (n. 5), 13, 18–19, 43 (n. 158), Bolland, Jean (1596–1665), Belgian Jesuit 49–50, 56 (n. 1), 60, 95, 123, 130–131, historian and editor 9 134–135 Bourdieu, Pierre (1930–2002), French sociologist 2, 4–5, 122 Balbín, Bohuslav (1621–1688), Czech Jesuit Bořivoj I († 889), Prince of Bohemia 14–15, scholar 10–12, 21, 30, 42 (n. 142), 16 (n. 35), 31–34, 38 (n. 110), 46, 48, 69 45 (n. 166), 122–123, 130–131 (n. 24), 77, 79, 93, 115–116 Beatus Cyrillus, cyrilomethodian legend Bořivoj II (1100–1107, 1117–1120), Prince of (14th c.) 69, 74, 111 (n. 72) Bohemia 79 Bede Venerabilis (672/673–735) 104 Božetěch (ca. 1100), abbot of Sázava Bernheim, Ernst (1850–1942), German monastery 79, 86 historian 26 (n. 10), 27, 43, 51 Bratislava 23, 66 (n. 1), 73 (n. 53), 101 (n. 1) Blumenberg, Hans (1920–1996), German Bretholz, Bertold (1862–1936), Moravian philosopher and intellectual historian 4 German speaking historian of Jewish Bödec manuscript/legend, manuscript of origin 29 (n. 32), 40–44, 45 (n. 166), Legenda Christiani 44, 63, 73 (n. 51), 52 (n. 212), 56 (n. 1), 83–84, 92, 118, 121, 76–79, 82, 86–87, 90, 102–103, 105–107 130 Bohemia 7, 14–15, 17, 19, 21–22, 32, 34–35, Brno, city in South Moravia 23, 66 (n. 1), 38–39, 46–47, 50, 54–55, 57, 70 (n. 29), 73, 73 (n. 53), 101 (n. 1) 82, 91, 97–100, 106, 107 (n. 37), 114–117, 132 Břevnov monastery 10, 85 Bohemian Second Life of St. Adalbert (Bruno’s of Annalistic works 26 (n. 5) Querfurt) 32, 72 Aristocracy 22 Büdinger, Max (1828–1902), Austrian Audience 91 historian 19 Author 61, 63 Bulgaria 31, 34 (origin), 38–39, 46–47, 61, 92 Church 46 (tradition) 154 Index First Life of St. Adalbert (Canaparius) 44 Crescente per orbem universum, Capital st. Wenceslas legend 33 Conversion of 122 Criticism 7, 11–12, 16, 18, 19 (n. 41), 26–27, Cultural 124 36, 41, 43 (n. 157), 45, 49 (n. 199), Economic 124 62 (n. 53), 65, 68, 77 (n. 82, 88), 86, Symbolic 100, 122 (n. 1) 95–96, 124, 128, 129 (n. 20), 130–131 Časopis Českého museum 21, 49, 55 Cursus /rythmical clauses 74, 97, 107–109, Časopis Matice moravské 55, 63 129 Cassirer, Ernst (1874–1945), philosopher 1 St. Cyril 14, 27, 29–30, 34, 38, 40 (n. 129), Centre 47 (n. 188), 59, 61, 69–70, 79, 95 (n. 248), Symbolic 1, 123 97, 103, 107 (n. 39) Český časopis historický (ČČH) 55, 64 Cyril of Alexandria (c. 376–444), patriarch of Charles IV (1346–1378), emperor of the Holy Alexandria 30, 34, 61 Roman empire and king of Bohemia 69, Czechoslovakia 97–99 75, 79 Charles university 23, 49 (n. 199), 55, 63–64, Dalimil, so called, anonymous Czech 66, 99, 111, 132 chronicler (ca. 1310) 15, 16 (n. 32), 29, 32, Chaloupecký, Václav (1882–1951), Czech 70, 72, 79, 87, 89, 94, 104 historian 66–74, 75, 86, 87, 89 (n. 193), Davidson, Donald (1917–2003), American 93, 94–95, 97–100, 101, 105, 111, 128, 132 philosopher 2, 53 Christian (also Strachkvas, Christian of Skála) Děčín Manuscript 63, 102 (monk, author of Legenda Christiani, end Diffundente sole, St. Ludmia Legend (14th c.) of 10th c.) 10–12, 15–16, 18–19, 27–29, 15, 30, 34, 45–46, 67 (n. 6), 68–69, 77, 79 31–47, 58–73, 76–79, 83, 85–87, 90–97, (n. 97), 91, 105, 107, 109 103–111, 113 (n. 80), 114–115, 119, 129 Dobner, Gelasius (1719–1790), Bohemian Chronicle of the Canon of Vyšehrad scholar and historian 11–12, 16, 18, 21, 123 (ca. 1150) 33 Dobrovský, Josef (1753–1829), Czech scholar Chronicle of the Priest of Dioclea, and historian 9, 13–18, 19 (n. 41), 21, anonymous medieval Chronicle from 27–28, 50 (n. 203), 53, 55 (n. 223), 73, 94, today’s Serbia 34 99, 105, 130–131, 133 Cicero 104 (n. 16) Dudík, Beda (1815–1890), Benedictine St. Coloman (†1012), martyr 35 Moravian historian 22 Community 1, 4–8, 9, 23, 29, 49, 51 (n. 206), Drahomíra (beg. of 10th c.), Bohemian 55, 65, 98 (n. 258), 100, 112, 124 duchess, mother of St. Wenceslas 28, 32, Communication 1–8, 122–124, 138 36, 48, 63, 83 (n. 124) Comenius university 73 (n. 53), 66 (n. 1), 101 (n. 1) Eco, Umberto (*1932), Italian philosopher, Corpus sacratissimi martyris, st. Wenceslas novelist and semiotician 6, 125 legend 33 Enlightenment 9, 11, 18 (n. 40), 40 (n. 123), Cosmas of Prague (1045–1125) / Chronicle of 101, 127 (n. 14) the Bohemians 8 (n. 19), 11, 13, 15, 16, Epilogus Moraviensis ecclesiae / Moravian 28–29, 33–37, 39, 40 (n. 129), 41–45, 47, Church Epilogue 15, 31 (n. 45), 34, 69, 58, 61, 68–69, 72, 74 (n. 66), 75, 77, 79, 79, 86, 89 81, 83–84, 86–89, 93–94, 104, 108, 112, 115 Externalization 5 (n. 12) Crescente fide, st. Wenceslas legend (10th c.) 15, 28, 33–34, 45–46, 56–58, 62, 67, Factum est 68–69, 72, 74, 77 70 (n. 35), 71–72, 74, 77, 80, 82–85, 89 Fiala, Zdeněk (1922–1975), Czech historian (n. 193), 90–92, 94, 106, 109–110 111–113, 114 (n. 90), 133 Bohemian redaction 45–46, 72, 84–85, 110 Field 6, 125–126, 127, 133.
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