Publication details
Sázava a staroslověnská kapitola v dějinách písemné kultury v českých zemích doby přemyslovské
| Title in English | Sazava monastery and Old Church Slavonic as a part of Bohemian and Moravian Literacy in Přemyslid Era |
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| Year of publication | 2026 |
| Type | Paper in proceedings |
| Conference | Svatý Prokop : Sázava a kanonizace v historickém kontextu |
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| Keywords | Sázava abbey; Old Church Slavonic literacy; Czech lands; Přemyslids; Stylometry; St. Prokop of Bohemia; Cosmas of Prague (c 1050-1125) |
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| Description | The introduction to this chapter summarized the arguments for why, in the context of the early Přemyslid principality, it is not appropriate to view Old Church Slavonic and Latin as “political agendas” of conflicting clerical groups, but rather to consider them as two modes of communication suited to different situations. After ruling out Sázava as some sort of exclusive center of Slavic written culture, I proceeded to refine our understanding of Sázava’s written culture. I attempted to identify the ÖNB 580 manuscript as the work of the Sázava monks, as opposed to the J38+J43 dual manuscript. In the final step, using stylometric analyses, I proceeded to examine the relationship between the oldest legend of St. Prokop, the *Vita minor*, and the Sázava historiographical texts. In particular, frequency analyses provided evidence supporting the hypothesis that the original text about St. Prokop is closer to the Vita minor than to the Sázava insertions in Cosmas’s Chronicle. |