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Figure 10.1. Fragment of  where Ailnothus compares Canute to Saint Sebastian and Saint Stephen in Brugge, Hoofdbibliotheek Biekorf, MS 403, fol. 82v (detail). Reproduced with the permission of the Bibliotheek Brugge.
Figure 10.2. Saint Wenceslas’ assassination scene. The prince flees from his brother, who is wielding a sword, to church, while priest closes the door, from Gumpold’s  in the so-called . Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, Cod. Guelf. 11,2, fol. 21r (detail). Photo from Herzog August Bibliothek, CC BY-SA, via the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel Manuscript database.

References

  1. Manuscripts, Archival Sources, and Other Unedited Material
    Brugge, Hoofdbibliotheek Biekorf, MS 403
  2. Primary Sources
    Ailnothus, Gesta Swenomagni Regis et Filiorum Eius et Passio Glorisissimi Canuti Regis et Martyris, ed. by Martin Cl. Gertz, in Vitae Sanctorum Danorum (Copenhagen: GAD, 1908–1912), pp. 77–136
  3. Carmina Ecclesiastica, ed. by Martin Cl. Gertz, in Vitae Sanctorum Danorum (Copenhagen: GAD, 1908–1912), pp. 149–62
  4. De sancto Kanuto Rege et Martyre. Ex libris memorialibus capituli Lundensis, ed. by Martin Cl. Gertz, in Vitae Sanctorum Danorum (Copenhagen: GAD, 1908–1912), p. 148
  5. Epitaphium Sancti Kanuti, ed. by Martin Cl. Gertz, in Vitae Sanctorum Danorum (Copenhagen: GAD, 1908–1912), p. 76
  6. Legenda Christiani. Vita et passio sancti Wenceslai et sancte Ludmile ave eius, ed. by J. Ludvíkovský (Prague: Vyšehrad, 1978)
  7. Passio Sancti Kanuti Regis et Martyris, ed. by Martin Cl. Gertz, in Vitae Sanctorum Danorum (Copenhagen: GAD, 1908–1912), pp. 62–71
  8. Tabula Othoniensis, ed. by Martin Cl. Gertz, in Vitae Sanctorum Danorum (Copenhagen: GAD, 1908–1912), pp. 60–62
  9. Secondary Studies
    Banaszkiewicz, Jacek, ‘Gumpold, Wawrzyniec i Krystian, czyli krótko o tym, jak śnieżna i północna Bohemia stawała się częścią “błogosławionej” Europy’, in Trzy po trzy o dziesiątym wieku, ed. by Jacek Banaszkiewicz (Kraków: Avalon, 2014), pp. 158–68
  10. Christensen, Jakob Tue, Mikael Manøe Bjerregaard, and Mads Runge, ‘Odense before and after the Canonization of Cnut’, in Life and Cult of Cnut the Holy: The First Royal Saint of Denmark, ed. by Steffen Hope, Mikael Manøe Bjerregaard, Anne Hedeager Krag, and Mads Runge (Odense: University of Southern Denmark, 2019), pp. 10–26
  11. Esmark, Kim, Lars Hermanson, and Hans Jacob Orning (eds), ‘Introduction’, in Nordic Elites in Transformation, c. 1050–1250, Volume II, Social Networks (New York: Routledge, 2020), pp. 1–7
  12. Fritz, Fiona, The Multifunctionality of a Medieval Hagiography: A Historical Case Study of the “Gesta et Passio” and the Making of the Danish Royal Saint Cnut (c. 1100) (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2024)
  13. Gertz, Martin Cl., ‘Fortale’, in Vitae Sanctorum Danorum, ed. by Martin Cl. Gertz (Copenhagen: GAD, 1908–1912), pp. 29–59
  14. Gromadzki, Grzegorz, ‘Legenda De sancto Adalberto episcopo oraz Miracula sancti Adalberti. Studium źródłoznawcze’, Roczniki Humanistyczne, 37.2 (1989), 576
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  16. Hope, Steffen, ‘Constructing Institutional Identity through the Cult of Royal Saints, c. 1050–c. 1200’ (unpublished PhD thesis, University of Southern Denmark, 2017)
  17. Hope, Steffen, ‘The Odense Literature and the Early Liturgy of St Cnut Rex’, in Life and Cult of Cnut the Holy: The First Royal Saint of Denmark, ed. by Steffen Hope, Mikael Manøe Bjerregaard, Anne Hedeager Krag, and Mads Runge (Odense: University of Southern Denmark, 2019), pp. 100–17
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  19. Hope, Steffen, ‘Symbolic Crucifixion and Royal Sainthood: Two Examples from Benedictine Saints’ Lives (c. 985–c. 1120)’, in Death, Sanctity, and the Cross: Crucified Saints in Image and Text, ed. by Barbara Crostini and Anthony John Lappin (Rome: Viella, 2022), pp. 197–226
  20. Jasiński, Wojciech, Legenda Krystiana – autentyk czy mistyfikacja? Żywot i męczeństwo św. Wacława i św. Ludmiły w świetle analizy historycznej i filologicznej (Poznań: UAM, 2020)
  21. Jezierski, Wojtek, ‘Introduction’, in Nordic Elites in Transformation, c. 1050–1250, Volume iii, Legitimacy and Glory, ed. by Wojtek Jezierski, Kim Esmark, Hans Jacob Orning, and Jón Viđar Sigurđsson (New York: Routledge, 2021), pp. 1–35
  22. Kalhous, David, Legenda Christiani and Modern Historiography (Leiden: Brill, 2015)
  23. Kubin, Petr, ‘Znovu o Kristiána’, in Od knížat ke králům. Sborník u příležitosti 60. narozenin Josefa Žemličky, ed. by Eva Doležalová (Prague: Lidové noviny, 2007), pp. 63–72
  24. Mortensen, Lars Boje, ‘Sanctified Beginnings and Mythopoetic Moments: The First Wave of Writing on the Past in Norway, Denmark, and Hungary, c. 1000–1230’, in The Making of Christian Myths in the Periphery of Latin Christendom (c. 1000–1300), ed. by Lars Boje Mortensen (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum, 2006), pp. 247–73
  25. Pac, Grzegorz, ‘Kult świętych a problem granicy między chrześcijaństwem zachodnim i wschodnim w Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej X–XII wieku’, in Granica wschodnia cywilizacji zachodniej w średniowieczu, ed. by Zbigniew Dalewski (Warszawa: PAN, 2014), pp. 375–434
  26. Pauk, Marcin, ‘The Coin in the Political Culture of the Middle Ages: On the Iconography of the Bohemian Deniers in the First Half of the Twelfth Century’, Kwartalnik Historyczny, 121. Special issue (2014), 748
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  27. Petersen, Nils Holger, ‘Cnut Rex and Cnut Dux – A Comparison of the two Danish Medieval Saints’ Cults’, in Life and Cult of Cnut the Holy: The First Royal Saint of Denmark, ed. by Steffen Hope, Mikael Manøe Bjerregaard, Anne Hedeager Krag, and Mads Runge (Odense: University of Southern Denmark, 2019), pp. 118–30
  28. Rosenwein, Barbara H., Emotional Communities in the Early Middle Ages (London: Cornell University, 2006)
  29. Stock, Brian, Implications of Literacy: Written Language and Models of Interpretation in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries (New Jersey: Princeton University, 1983)
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References

  1. Manuscripts, Archival Sources, and Other Unedited Material
    Brugge, Hoofdbibliotheek Biekorf, MS 403
  2. Primary Sources
    Ailnothus, Gesta Swenomagni Regis et Filiorum Eius et Passio Glorisissimi Canuti Regis et Martyris, ed. by Martin Cl. Gertz, in Vitae Sanctorum Danorum (Copenhagen: GAD, 1908–1912), pp. 77–136
  3. Carmina Ecclesiastica, ed. by Martin Cl. Gertz, in Vitae Sanctorum Danorum (Copenhagen: GAD, 1908–1912), pp. 149–62
  4. De sancto Kanuto Rege et Martyre. Ex libris memorialibus capituli Lundensis, ed. by Martin Cl. Gertz, in Vitae Sanctorum Danorum (Copenhagen: GAD, 1908–1912), p. 148
  5. Epitaphium Sancti Kanuti, ed. by Martin Cl. Gertz, in Vitae Sanctorum Danorum (Copenhagen: GAD, 1908–1912), p. 76
  6. Legenda Christiani. Vita et passio sancti Wenceslai et sancte Ludmile ave eius, ed. by J. Ludvíkovský (Prague: Vyšehrad, 1978)
  7. Passio Sancti Kanuti Regis et Martyris, ed. by Martin Cl. Gertz, in Vitae Sanctorum Danorum (Copenhagen: GAD, 1908–1912), pp. 62–71
  8. Tabula Othoniensis, ed. by Martin Cl. Gertz, in Vitae Sanctorum Danorum (Copenhagen: GAD, 1908–1912), pp. 60–62
  9. Secondary Studies
    Banaszkiewicz, Jacek, ‘Gumpold, Wawrzyniec i Krystian, czyli krótko o tym, jak śnieżna i północna Bohemia stawała się częścią “błogosławionej” Europy’, in Trzy po trzy o dziesiątym wieku, ed. by Jacek Banaszkiewicz (Kraków: Avalon, 2014), pp. 158–68
  10. Christensen, Jakob Tue, Mikael Manøe Bjerregaard, and Mads Runge, ‘Odense before and after the Canonization of Cnut’, in Life and Cult of Cnut the Holy: The First Royal Saint of Denmark, ed. by Steffen Hope, Mikael Manøe Bjerregaard, Anne Hedeager Krag, and Mads Runge (Odense: University of Southern Denmark, 2019), pp. 10–26
  11. Esmark, Kim, Lars Hermanson, and Hans Jacob Orning (eds), ‘Introduction’, in Nordic Elites in Transformation, c. 1050–1250, Volume II, Social Networks (New York: Routledge, 2020), pp. 1–7
  12. Fritz, Fiona, The Multifunctionality of a Medieval Hagiography: A Historical Case Study of the “Gesta et Passio” and the Making of the Danish Royal Saint Cnut (c. 1100) (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2024)
  13. Gertz, Martin Cl., ‘Fortale’, in Vitae Sanctorum Danorum, ed. by Martin Cl. Gertz (Copenhagen: GAD, 1908–1912), pp. 29–59
  14. Gromadzki, Grzegorz, ‘Legenda De sancto Adalberto episcopo oraz Miracula sancti Adalberti. Studium źródłoznawcze’, Roczniki Humanistyczne, 37.2 (1989), 576
    [Google Scholar]
  15. Haki Antonsson, St Magnús of Orkney: A Scandinavian Martyr-Cult in Context (Leiden: Brill, 2007)
  16. Hope, Steffen, ‘Constructing Institutional Identity through the Cult of Royal Saints, c. 1050–c. 1200’ (unpublished PhD thesis, University of Southern Denmark, 2017)
  17. Hope, Steffen, ‘The Odense Literature and the Early Liturgy of St Cnut Rex’, in Life and Cult of Cnut the Holy: The First Royal Saint of Denmark, ed. by Steffen Hope, Mikael Manøe Bjerregaard, Anne Hedeager Krag, and Mads Runge (Odense: University of Southern Denmark, 2019), pp. 100–17
  18. Hope, Steffen, ‘Strategies for Constructing an Institutional Identity: Three Case Studies from the Liturgical Office of Saint Edmund Martyr’, Open Library of Humanities, 5.1, 22, pp. 1–31. DOI: https://doi.org/ [Crossref]
  19. Hope, Steffen, ‘Symbolic Crucifixion and Royal Sainthood: Two Examples from Benedictine Saints’ Lives (c. 985–c. 1120)’, in Death, Sanctity, and the Cross: Crucified Saints in Image and Text, ed. by Barbara Crostini and Anthony John Lappin (Rome: Viella, 2022), pp. 197–226
  20. Jasiński, Wojciech, Legenda Krystiana – autentyk czy mistyfikacja? Żywot i męczeństwo św. Wacława i św. Ludmiły w świetle analizy historycznej i filologicznej (Poznań: UAM, 2020)
  21. Jezierski, Wojtek, ‘Introduction’, in Nordic Elites in Transformation, c. 1050–1250, Volume iii, Legitimacy and Glory, ed. by Wojtek Jezierski, Kim Esmark, Hans Jacob Orning, and Jón Viđar Sigurđsson (New York: Routledge, 2021), pp. 1–35
  22. Kalhous, David, Legenda Christiani and Modern Historiography (Leiden: Brill, 2015)
  23. Kubin, Petr, ‘Znovu o Kristiána’, in Od knížat ke králům. Sborník u příležitosti 60. narozenin Josefa Žemličky, ed. by Eva Doležalová (Prague: Lidové noviny, 2007), pp. 63–72
  24. Mortensen, Lars Boje, ‘Sanctified Beginnings and Mythopoetic Moments: The First Wave of Writing on the Past in Norway, Denmark, and Hungary, c. 1000–1230’, in The Making of Christian Myths in the Periphery of Latin Christendom (c. 1000–1300), ed. by Lars Boje Mortensen (Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum, 2006), pp. 247–73
  25. Pac, Grzegorz, ‘Kult świętych a problem granicy między chrześcijaństwem zachodnim i wschodnim w Europie Środkowo-Wschodniej X–XII wieku’, in Granica wschodnia cywilizacji zachodniej w średniowieczu, ed. by Zbigniew Dalewski (Warszawa: PAN, 2014), pp. 375–434
  26. Pauk, Marcin, ‘The Coin in the Political Culture of the Middle Ages: On the Iconography of the Bohemian Deniers in the First Half of the Twelfth Century’, Kwartalnik Historyczny, 121. Special issue (2014), 748
    [Google Scholar]
  27. Petersen, Nils Holger, ‘Cnut Rex and Cnut Dux – A Comparison of the two Danish Medieval Saints’ Cults’, in Life and Cult of Cnut the Holy: The First Royal Saint of Denmark, ed. by Steffen Hope, Mikael Manøe Bjerregaard, Anne Hedeager Krag, and Mads Runge (Odense: University of Southern Denmark, 2019), pp. 118–30
  28. Rosenwein, Barbara H., Emotional Communities in the Early Middle Ages (London: Cornell University, 2006)
  29. Stock, Brian, Implications of Literacy: Written Language and Models of Interpretation in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries (New Jersey: Princeton University, 1983)
  30. Třeštík, Dušan, ‘Deset tezí o Kristiánově legendě’, Folia Historica Bohemica, 2 (1980), 733
    [Google Scholar]
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