Canonisations and his Comprehension in the Early Medieval Bohemia

Abstract

Cosmas presents in his chronicle that the canonisation was understood in Bohemia in the 11th century like an act reserved to popes. But it does not correspond to the state of church law which enforced the papal reservation of canonisations only later.

So in the Cosmas´ chronicle are probably projected the power aspirations of gregorian papacy.

Keywords

• Canonisations
• Comprehension
• Early
• Medieval
• Bohemia