Vesna Badurina Stipčević: Izvori hrvatskoglagoljskih hagiografskih tekstova: Hagiogafije Bartolomeja apostola i svetoga Nikole

 

DOI 10.17846/pdjkss.2026.86-99

 

Prof. PhD. Vesna Badurina Stipčević, Institut za hrvatski jezik (Zagreb, Croatia)

 

Sources of Croatian Glagolitic hagiographic texts: Hagiographies of Saint Bartholomew the Apostle and Saint Nicholas

 

Abstract

Croatian Glagolitic medieval literacy and culture, from its beginnings, due to various geopolitical, historical and religious circumstances, was exposed to strong influences from the traditions of the West and the East. In earlier centuries, the importance of Greek-Byzantine-Slavic literature was more pronounced, while from the 13th century onwards, the influence of Western and Central European literatures became increasingly stronger and became decisive. Some Croatian Glagolitic hagiographies were created under the influence of Czech models, and a significant corpus of Croatian legends is of Latin and Italian origin. The Croatian Glagolitic hagiographies of Bartholomew the Apostle and Saint Nicholas described show that there were earlier literary influences from the Greek-Slavic environment. It also presents how significant the influence of Western, Latin, Czech, Italian, apocryphal and legendary, literary and liturgical sources was in shaping the Glagolitic apostolic passions and saints‘ legends. Western European hagiography, with its numerous and diverse saintly texts, recorded in breviaries, passionaries, and legendaries, played a prominent role in shaping Croatian Glagolitic hagiographic literature.

 

Keywords

Croatian Glagolitic heritage; hagiography; Bartholomew the Apostle; Saint Nicholas; European medieval literature.

 

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BADURINA STIPČEVIĆ, Vesna, (2026). Izvori hrvatskoglagoljskih hagiografskih tekstova: Hagiogafije Bartolomeja apostola i svetoga Nikole. In: Žeňuchová Šašerina, Svetlana (ed.). Písomné dedičstvo, jazyk a kultúrna pamäť v slovanskom svete. Nitra: Univerzita Konštantína Filozofa, s. 86-99. ISBN 978-80-558-2449-9 (tlač), ISBN 978-80-558-2450-5 (online). DOI 10.17846/pdjkss.2026.86-99

 

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