Saints in the Slavic Christian World

Emil Hilton Saggau, Ph.D., is a Danish church historian working as a research fellow at Lund University, Sweden. He graduated from the University of Copenhagen in 2020, with a thesis on the Orthodox historiography of former Yugoslavia, and has continued to publish on saints and cults in Southeastern Europe. His main interest is Southeast European history and religion – in particular, the region’s connections with Byzantium. Wawrzyniec Kowalski, PhD., is an assistant professor at the Institute of History, University of Wrocław, Poland. He has worked extensively on the nation-making process in Central Europe between c. 500 and c. 1300. His landmark study The Kings of the Slavs: The Image of a Ruler in the Latin Text of ‘The Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja’ was published in 2021.Mihai Dragnea, PhD, is an associate researcher at the University of South-Eastern Norway and the president of the Balkan History Association. His interests include cultural, social and political relations between Germans, Scandinavians and Slavs during the High Middle Ages, the Viking Age, Slavic identity and state formation , Wallachian and Vlach identity as well as ethnicity and conflict in the Balkans.

• Introduction: Assessing Slavic saints — Chapter 2: The Legacy of Iconophile Theology of Vita Constantini — Chapter 3: Conversion of pagan rulers of Lithuania — Chapter 4: Prince Voyshelk as a local saint — Chapter 5: St. Parasceve of Epibatae the Younger — Chapter 6: Saint Adalbert and Saints Five Brothers Martyrs — Chapter 7: When sainthood is not enough - Biblical legitimisation of dynastic power in Kyivan Rus’ — Chapter 8: The Life of Saint Theodosius of the Cave and the genre tradition — Chapter 9: Transmission Practices in the Early Hagiography of Rus’ before the 16th century — Chapter 10: The Latin mass in Old Church Slavonic — Chapter 11: The Waldensian concept of catholic saints: total rejection or hidden faith — Chapter 12: The Holy Kings and the Forms of Sanctity in The Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja — Chapter 13: Killing the Tsar, again - Power and sainthood amongst the early Slavic ruler saints — Authors and editors