Magyar Zoltán

Legends of Early Hungarian Saints: type- and motif-index

Irene (Piroska, Eiréné)

She was the daughter of king Ladislas who was sent to the Byzantine court as a child, shortly after the death of her father, to be betrothed to John Comnenus II, son of emperor Alexios. Piroska received the name Eiréné in Constantinople and became basilissa of the Empire in 1118. She designed and founded the monastery of the Pantokrator in Constantinople where she was buried on her death in 1134. She is a saint of the Oriental church; her portrait, together with that of her husband, appears on a mosaic of the Hagia Sophia (Moravcsik 1923).

Legends of Early Hungarian Saints: type- and motif-index

Tartalomjegyzék

Kiadó: Akadémiai Kiadó

Online megjelenés éve: 2026

ISBN: 978 963 664 185 6

Művelődéstörténet Idegen nyelvű

The work of folklorist Zoltán Magyar throws light on a relatively little-known segment of the dynastyc cult of saints in Central European cultural history. The hagiographies and legends written on different members of the Árpadian dynasty, ruling in Hungary between the 11th and 13th centuries, and their contemporaries endowed with the aura of sanctity, occur not only in their medieval Hungarian legendry but have also become part of the liturgical tradition and the cult of saints on German, Polish and Byzantine soil. The thematic and generic variety of this legendry and its many folkloric implications show close parallels with another major work of medieval European hagiography: the legends of early Irish saints. The type- and motif-index and generatic catalogue compiled by Zoltán Magyar orders the epic tradition, based on 11rh-16th century written sources, of twelve Hungarian royal saints who have become the subject of legends shortly after their death. Beside classification according to the type of legendd heroes and themes, the book also contains an analysis of the biographical data, of the historical sources and of the primary types and motifs of hagiographies.

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