Royal saints and monasticism in Boehmia,  Hungary, and Poland

• Curta 431-437
• Hartvic, Life of King Stephen of Hungary
  
• Gábor Klaniczay, "The paradoxes of royal sainthood as illustrated by central European examples," in Kings and Kingship in Medieval Europe, ed. by Anne J. Duggan (London, 1993), pp. 351-374 (London, 1993), pp. 351-374 (Pack)
•  József Török, "The monastic orders in Hungary," in A Thousand Years of Christianity in Hungary. Hungariae Christianae Millennium, ed. by István Zombori, Cséfalvy Pál and Maria Antonietta De Angelis (Budapest, 2001), pp. 160-170 (Pack)
  
• see pictures of the abbey churches of Sv. Krsevan (Zadar) and Sw. Jakub (Sandomierz)

In-class assignment #4

Orthodoxy in Rus', Orthodoxy and religious dissent in the Balkans

• Passion of SS. Boris and Gleb
• Petkov 68-89, 110-117, 163-193, 249-54, 274-276, 340-344, and 444-446
  
• Georgi Vladimirov, "The phenomenon Bogomilism in Bulgarian and European mediaeval culture: attempt to culturological interpretation," in Civitas divino-humana. V chest na profesor Georgi Bakalov, ed. by Tsvetelin Stepanov and Veselina Vachkova (Sofia, 2004), pp. 667-674 (Pack)
• Bernard Hamilton, "Bogomil influences on Western heresy," in Heresy and the Persecuting Society in the Middle Ages. Essays on the Work of R. I. Moore, ed. by Michael Frassetto (Leiden/Boston, 2006), pp. 93-114 (Pack)
• Muriel Heppell, "The early history of the Kievan monastery of Caves," in The Theotokos Evergetis and Eleventh-Century Monasticism, ed. by Margaret Mullett and A. Kirby (Belfast, 1994), 56-66  (Pack)
• Kiril Pavlikianov, "The Athonite monastery of Zographou," Byzantinische Zeitschrift 97 (2004), no. 2, 559-566 (Pack)