Intorno a Venceslao Olga Kalashnikova University of Naples L'Orientale, Italy Vittorio Springfield Tomelleri University of Turin, Italy This is a section of Incroci testuali e linguistico-culturali nella <i>Slavia Christiana</i>: l’officio slavo per San Venceslao(DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-0950-2) by Vittorio Springfield Tomelleri, Olga Kalashnikova Firenze University Press Florence 2026 https://doi.org/10.36253/979-12-215-0950-2.03

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This chapter explores Saint Wenceslas through a historical and hagiographical lens, focusing on his life, political choices, martyrdom, and posthumous cult, and showing how he evolved into a dynastic saint and a central religious, political, and national symbol of medieval Bohemia and Czech identity.

 Saint Wenceslas Medieval Bohemia Martyrdom Dynastic Sanctity Political SYmbolism

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