Sancti Adalberti episcopi Pragensis vita altera

The Vita Sancti adalberti episcopi Pragensis or Sancti adalberti episcopi Pragensis vita altera and shortly Vita altera or Vita posterior ( German lives of Sts. Adalbert, Bishop of Prague , Polish Żywot drugi św. Wojciecha ) is in medium-Latin by Bruno of Querfurt wrote hagiografische Writing about the life ( Vita ), the mission and the martyrdom of Adalbert of Prague . The incipit is Nascitur purpureus flos .

Lore

The Vita is available in two versions: a longer one ( Redactio longior ) and a shorter one ( Redactio brevior ). The longer version is also the older one. Brun von Querfurt probably wrote it in Saxony in 1004 . The shorter, more recent version was written before Brun's mission of the Prussians in 1009. It may have been written in Poland in 1008 like the Epistola Brunonis to Henry II .

Both versions have survived in only a few manuscripts , the oldest of which date from the 12th century. The longer version has only survived in a manuscript from the 2nd half of the 12th century from Württemberg, which is now kept at Kynžvart Castle. The shorter version is preserved in six manuscripts, two of which come from Bavaria and four from the Czech Republic .

swell

Brun's main source was the Vita sancti Adalberti episcopi Pragensis , the different versions of which he was able to familiarize himself with during his stays in Italy from 997 to 1002. In his vita, however, he evades, on the one hand, by digressions with religious, moral and political content and by omitting some biographical episodes.

content

Both versions of the Vita comprise 34 chapters. However, they differ in the scope of the descriptions of individual episodes. In addition, the miracles are missing in the shorter version and the description of the prophetic dreams has been restricted.

style

The work is written in rhythmic art prose in ornatus difficilis , which is characterized by a large number of stylistic figures , in particular metaphors , comparisons and epithets , as well as a hypotactic sentence structure.

In addition to the Bible and the works of Gregory the Great , the Vita contains quotations from the Carmina of Horace , the Aeneid and the Eclogae of Virgil , the Metamorphoses of Ovid and the satires of Juvenal and Persius .

reception

The vita was received by Cosmas from Prague . The legend Tempore illo from the 13th century also clearly refers to the Vita. In the 14th century it became so popular that it was included in the Polish collections of the Legenda aurea .

expenditure

Jadwiga Karwasińska (Ed.): S. Adalberti Pragensis episcopi et martyris vita altera auctore Brunone Querfurtensi (= Monumenta Poloniae Historica. Nova Series . Volume IV. Fasc. 2). Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Warsaw 1969.

literature

Teresa Michałowska: Średniowiecze (= Wielka Historia Literatury Polskiej . Volume 1 ). Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warsaw 2002, ISBN 978-83-01-12851-7 , p. 82-85 (first edition: 1995).
Teresa Michałowska: Vita altera . In: Literatura Polskiego Średniowiecza . Leksykon. Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warsaw 2011, ISBN 978-83-01-16675-5 , p. 839-841 .

Web links

Vitae s. Adalberti episcopi Pragensis recensio I. In: Repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages". September 6, 2012, accessed October 17, 2019 .
Vitae s. Adalberti episcopi Pragensis recensio II. In: Repertory "Historical Sources of the German Middle Ages". September 6, 2012, accessed October 17, 2019 .

Individual evidence

↑ Jadwiga Karwasińska (ed.): S. Adalberti Pragensis episcopi et martyris vita altera auctore Brunone Querfurtensi (= Monumenta Poloniae Historica. Nova Series . Volume IV. Fasc. 2). Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Warsaw 1969, p. VII-XII .
↑ Teresa Michałowska: Średniowiecze (= Wielka Historia Literatury Polskiej . Volume 1 ). Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warsaw 2002, ISBN 978-83-01-12851-7 , p. 83 (first edition: 1995).
^ Teresa Michałowska: Vita altera . In: Literatura Polskiego Średniowiecza . Leksykon. Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warsaw 2011, ISBN 978-83-01-16675-5 , p. 840 .
↑ Jadwiga Karwasińska (ed.): S. Adalberti Pragensis episcopi et martyris vita altera auctore Brunone Querfurtensi (= Monumenta Poloniae Historica. Nova Series . Volume IV. Fasc. 2). Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Warsaw 1969, p. XXVII .
↑ Jadwiga Karwasińska (ed.): S. Adalberti Pragensis episcopi et martyris vita altera auctore Brunone Querfurtensi (= Monumenta Poloniae Historica. Nova Series . Volume IV. Fasc. 2). Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Warsaw 1969, p. XXIX .

[1] Jadwiga Karwasińska (ed.): S. Adalberti Pragensis episcopi et martyris vita altera auctore Brunone Querfurtensi (= Monumenta Poloniae Historica. Nova Series . Volume IV. Fasc. 2). Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Warsaw 1969, p. VII-XII .

[2] Teresa Michałowska: Średniowiecze (= Wielka Historia Literatury Polskiej . Volume 1 ). Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warsaw 2002, ISBN 978-83-01-12851-7 , p. 83 (first edition: 1995).

[3] Teresa Michałowska: Vita altera . In: Literatura Polskiego Średniowiecza . Leksykon. Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warsaw 2011, ISBN 978-83-01-16675-5 , p. 840 .

[4] Jadwiga Karwasińska (ed.): S. Adalberti Pragensis episcopi et martyris vita altera auctore Brunone Querfurtensi (= Monumenta Poloniae Historica. Nova Series . Volume IV. Fasc. 2). Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Warsaw 1969, p. XXVII .

[5] Jadwiga Karwasińska (ed.): S. Adalberti Pragensis episcopi et martyris vita altera auctore Brunone Querfurtensi (= Monumenta Poloniae Historica. Nova Series . Volume IV. Fasc. 2). Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Warsaw 1969, p. XXIX .