Sázava Monastery
Appearance
The Sázava Monastery is a Benedictine abbey and a monastery established by Bretislaus I, Duke of Bohemia near Prague around 1032.[1][2]
History
The foundation of the monastery was initiated by Procopius of Sázava, a Czech hermit who was in 1203 canonized as saint.[1] The monastery was an important center of Old Church Slavonic literature until 1097.[1][3]
Footnotes
- ^ a b c Wolverton, p. 134.
- ^ Sommer et al., p. 247.
- ^ Sommer et al., p. 250.
Sources
- Sommer, Petr; Třeštík, Dušan; Žemlička, Josef; Opačić, Zoë (2007). "Bohemia and Moravia". In Berend, Nora (ed.). 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.
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