Vplyv svätováclavských legiend na hagiografické texty o svätých Borisovi a Glebovi
The influence of St. Wenceslas legends on hagiographical texts about Saints Boris and Gleb

Summary/Abstract: The Borisogleb and St. Wenceslas cults form the basis of ancient cultural and literary ties between the Czech lands and Kievan Rus. The work solves the question of how far texts of Czech prove-nance were used in the creation of hagiographic texts about the Kiev sufferers, not only as an ideological model for the justification of the cult, but also as a source of specific topos (common place), adopted in the creation of hagiographic texts. As a result of the comparison of Czech legends about St. Václav with the Narrative about Boris and Gleb is acquaintance that the author (or authors) of the Narrative knew the texts about St. Václav and used them as a template not only for the narrative plan of the story, but also by taking over specific images and sometimes whole passages, but reworked them to the realities of the place and time of the Kiev saints.

• Details
• Contents