1st Edition

Cosmas of Prague The Chronicle of the Czechs

564 Pages

by Central European University Press

Description

The Latin-English bilingual volume presents the text of The Chronicle of the Czechs by Cosmas of Prague. Cosmas was born around 1045, educated in Liège, upon his return to Bohemia, he got married as well as became a priest. In 1086 he was appointed prebendary, a senior member of clergy in Prague. He completed the first book of the Chronicle in 1119, starting with the creation of the world... Read more

General Editors', Preface, Abbreviations, List of tables and illustrations, Introduction, Cosmae Pragensis Chronica Bohemorum - Cosmas of Prague, The Chronicle of the CzechsAppendix: The Foundation of the monastery of Sazava, Bibliography, Gazetteer of place names, Index of names

Editor(s)

Biography

Petra Mutlová is assistant professor at the Department of Classical Philology, Masaryk University, Brno. She holds a PhD in Historical Sciences from Masaryk University (2007), and shehas been guest researcher at the Humboldt University, Berlin. She is a member of the research team preparing critical editions for the Magistri Ioannis Hus Opera omnia series for Brepols Publishers.Her main research interests comprise the Bohemian Reformation, codicology, and the transmission of late medieval theological texts.

Martyn Rady is Emeritus Professor of Central European History at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), University College London.

János M. Bak, professor emeritus CEU (Budapest) and UBC (Vancouver) was editor in chief of<Decreta Regni Mediaevalis Hungariae. The Laws of the Medieval Kingdom of Hungary (DRMH)

Pavlína Rychterová is historian at the Institut für Mittelalterforschung, ÖAW.

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