Sázava Monastery

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The Sázava Monastery was an important Benedictine abbey established by Bretislaus I, Duke of Bohemia near Prague around 1032.[1][2] Its foundation was initiated by Procopius, a Czech hermit who was in 1203 canonized as saint.[1] The monastery was an important center of Old Church Slavonic literature up until 1097.[1] [3]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Wolverton, p. 134.
  2. ↑ Sommer, Třeštík & Žemlička Opačić, p. 247.
  3. ↑ Sommer, Třeštík & Žemlička Opačić, p. 250.

Sources

  • Sommer, Petr; Třeštík, Dušan; Žemlička, Josef; Opačić, Zoë (2007). "Bohemia and Moravia". In Berend, Nora. Christianization and the Rise of Christian Monarchy: Scandinavia, Central Europe and Rus', c.900-1200. Cambridge University Press. pp. 214–262. ISBN 978-0-521-87616-2. 
  • Wolverton, Lisa (2001). Hastening Toward Prague: Power and Society in the Medieval Czech Lands. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 0-8122-3613-0. 


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