The origins of Christianity in Bohemia
Subtitle: sources and commentary
By: Marvin Kantor.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 299
Subjects: Czechoslovakia -- Church history.; Czechoslovakia -- Church history -- Sources.
Description: viii, 299 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-299).
Table of contents: title: Preface … vii; title: ◦; title: INTRODUCTION … 1; title: ◦; title: Historical Background (Beginnings – 1000) … 3; title: Bohemian Literature in Church Slavonic and Latin … 14; title: ◦; title: I. CHURCH SLAVONIC FRAGMENTS AND HYMNS … 47; title: 1. Prague Glagolitic Fragments … 49; title: 2. O Lord, Have Mercy on Us (Paraliturgical Hymn) … 55; title: ◦; title: II. CHURCH SLAVONIC WORKS ABOUT WENCESLAS AND LUDMILA … 57; title: 1. First Church Slavonic Life of Saint Wenceslas … 59; title: 2. Second Church Slavonic Life of Saint Wenceslas	… 67; title: 3. Service and Canon in Honor of Saint Wenceslas … 93; title: 4. Prologue Life of Saint Ludmila … 101; title: 5. Prologue Life of Saint Wenceslas … 105; title: 6. Prologue Translation of Saint Wenceslas … 109; title: ◦; title: III. OTHER CHURCH SLAVONIC WORKS … 111; title: 1. Life of Saint Vitus … 113; title: 2. Office in Honor of Saint Vitus (Glagolitic Fragment) … 125; title: 3. Prayer Against the Devil … 131; title: 4. Prayer to the Holy Trinity … 137; title: ◦; title: IV. LATIN WORKS ABOUT WENCESLAS AND LUDMILA … 141; title: 1. Life and Martyrdom of Saint Wenceslas (Crescente fide) … 143; title: 2. Passion of the Martyr Ludmila (Fuit in provincia Boemorum) … 155; title: 3. Life and Martyrdom of Saint Wenceslas and His Grandmother, Saint Ludmila (Legenda Christiani) … 163; title: 4. Homily for the Feast of Saint Ludmila (Factum est) …  205; title: 5. Legend of Saint Wenceslas (Oriente iam sole) … 215; title: 6. Brief Account of Saints Cyril and Methodius and the Baptism of the Moravian and Bohemian Lands (Diffundente sole) … 245; title: ◦; title: Notes … 253