Szent Móric lándzsája mint a pogányság elleni hadjárat része az Ottó-korban
The Lance of Saint Maurice as a Component of the Early Ottonian Campaign against Paganism

Summary/Abstract: The so-called Holy Lance that formed part of the Holy Roman imperial insignia since the middle of the tenth century was for a time believed to be identical with that carried by the early Christian soldier-martyr, Saint Maurice. While the earliest documentary evidence for a Maurician identification dates to 1008, this paper argues that Otto I (936–973) already associated the blade with this saint in the context of his anti-pagan campaign along the Empire’s eastern borders, in which the figure of the saint played a significant role. Construed as the lance of Saint Maurice, this weapon was a potent visual tool of early Ottonian proselytism.

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