| Abstract [eng] |
The work is devoted to Saint Bruno of Querfurt and his last mission in 1009 when Lithuania was first mentioned in the Quedlinburg Annals. This investigation (as is indicated in the subtitle of the thesis) is concerned exceptionally with studying the historical sources. Therefore the subject of the investigation is various sources presenting different and even contradictory information about St. Bruno of Querfurt, his life and his cruel death. This is the first attempt to study these sources in a complex way. One or another kind of the former, current (and / or possible) picture of St. Bruno and his mission in 1009 are presented through the analysis, comparison and interpretation of the sources. The chosen course of the investigation (and the structure of the thesis) is somewhat unconventional: from the issue of knowing that Saint (distinguishing three traditions – Camaldolese, Benedectine and local (Querfurt) – which referred to that Saint by different names and presented different data et locus martyrii, as a result of which separate names of St Bruno and St Boniface were introduced at the end of the 16th – in the first half of the 18th centuries) the investigation moves towards studying the simultaneous sources and the sources close to them focusing attention on two important issues – the versions of the hagiographic legend of Saint Bruno of Querfurt and the locus martyrii of that Saint. On the one hand, by means of this choice it was sought to show knowledge of Saint Bruno of Querfurt and the year 1009 from the Middle Ages to the present day, and on the other hand, this helps understand in what way certain canonical treatments were reached at one or another time, which influenced both the old and present-day historiography. |
