Abstrakt
This study offers a comparative perspective on several medieval narratives of historical events shaped on the Passion story as presented in the Gospels, which are strongly intertextual (in their use of quotations, allusions, paraphrases and the like) and which happen to have survived only in the British Isles and Bohemia. The corpus consists of the British Narratio de passione iusticiariorum (1289), Passio Scotorum periuratorum (1307), Passio Francorum secundum Flemingos (describing a 1302 battle but preserved only in the much later chronicle of Adam of Usk) and the Bohemian Passio Iudeorum Pragensium secundum Iesskonem, rusticum quadratum (after 1389), Passio raptorum de Slapanicz, secundum Bartoss, tortorem Brunnensem (after 1401) and Passio Magistri Johannis Hus secundum Johannem Barbatum (soon after 1415). While direct influence cannot be proved, the texts in this small corpus do have an affinity which does not appear anywhere else.