Beginnings of the Earliest Benedictine Monasteries in Central Europe Seen Through the Eyes of Medieval Monastery Tradition
2021
Abstract
There are researched the fictious stories of foundation of the oldest benedictines monasteries in the Central Europa, namelly in Bohemia Saint George in Prague, in Břevnov, Ostrov (or Saint-John under Rock), Sázava; in Moravia in Rajhrad; in Poland in Międzyrzecz nad Obrą (or in Kaźmierz) and in Trzemeszno; in Hungary in Zobor, in Skalka near Trenčín and in Bakonybél. These historiae fundationis monasteriorum are mostly connected with legendary naration about the saints.