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The monastery of Csorna (modern Western Hungary), which belonged to the Premonstratensian order and was established circa 1180, received the gift including the copies of the valuable charters from the archive of the Benedictine monastery of Hradisko ( Monasterium Gradicense ) in the vicinity of Olmütz/Olomouc. The earliest original of these charters dates from 1078. There are some documents written in Czech in this collection. The author of the article presents the textual and linguistic analysis of the oldest Czech charter dating from 1398.
„Sub tuum praesidium confugimus“
Zur Instrumentalisierung von Visionen und Wunderberichten in der dominikanischen Ordenshistoriographie am Beispiel der Schutzmantelmadonna
The motive of the “Virgin of Pity” that inspired many medieval and renaissance painters and sculptors can be found for the first time in Caesarius of Heisterbach's Dialogus miraculorum. He tells us about a Cistercian monk who had a vision of the victorious end times church. In his revelation, the monk saw the Cistercians being protected by the Virgin's mantle. This vision was not only the starting point of various sculptural works, but also a motive that several Dominican historiographers, who were looking for impressive proofs of the divine legitimation of their order, very soon adopted and transformed; furthermore, it was their aim to strengthen the corporate identity of the young Dominican order which resembled in many ways the Cistercians and the order of Prémontré. That Dietrich of Apolda used this vision in his biography of saint Dominic especially ensured the divulgation of this motive in mysticism and the historiography of other orders.
