Kult populárního raně středověkého světce sv. Jiljí v českých zemích od jeho počátků až po konec středověku

Abstract

The study deals with the medieval cult of the early medieval hermit and the Benedictine abbot St. Giles in the Bohemian lands from its earliest beginnings to the end of the Middle Ages. Saint Giles, living in the 7th and 8th centuries in the region of Septimania located in the south of modern‑day France, became one of the most popular Christian saints in the medieval Western and Central Europe due to his patronage. The study therefore seeks to create a comprehensive interpretation of the form of the St. Giles’s cult in the Bohemian lands in the Middle Ages. The historical research of the cult of St. Giles is carried out through a detailed analysis of the medieval narrative and material sources, iconography, legends and sources of Church‑administrative origin. The text presents, in detail and with the help of the analysis of relics, calendars and Church dedications, not only the spread of the St. Giles’s cult in the Bohemian lands in the 12th century, but also the close relationship of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV to the mentioned saint. The study also discusses the fine arts monuments and the cult of St. Giles as one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers at the end of the Middle Ages