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Wýbor Z Básnicturi ?eského. Cheskian Anthology, Being a History of the Poetical Literature of Bohemia, With Tr. Specimens by J. Bowring
Wbor Z Bsnicturi eskho Cheskian Anthology Being a History of the Poetical Literature of Bohemia With Tr Specimens by J Bowring Author:John Bowring General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1832 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: Slavonian literature has no earlier records than this -- but Bohemia was less influenced by it than the other slavonic nations. In the year 1080, king Wratislaw made an urgent appeal to Gregory VII., in order to obtain permission to employ the slavonian ritual, but his holiness sharply cen-. sured his " vain temerity." The Bohemian language (Cesky Gazyk) may be traced up to the sixth century, and is one of the southern branches of the great Slavonian stem. Its dialects are the moravian, the silesian, and the slowakian as spoken in upper Hungary. Previously to the introduction of christianity, it can only be tracked through the few and meagre latin chronicles which treat of Bohemia, and record merely the names of slavonian persons and places. In the year 845, fourteen bohemian princes were baptized, and soon after Boriwoy proclaimed Christianity from the throne as the established religion. Wenceslaw introduced from Saxony and Swabia a number of german priests, through whom the bohemian was greatly enriched, by words of both latin and teutonic origin, and by the creation of numerous conjugates out of This composition is often referred to in the thirteenth century as being popular among the bohemians. In the battle in which Ottokar subdued Bela in 1260, the bohemians are said to have frightened the hungarian horses by shouting this song. " Bohemi, valido in ccelum clamore excitato, canentes hymnum a S. Adalberto editum, quod populus singulis diebus dominicis et aliis iestivitatibus ad processionem cantat:" and again, when Wenceslaw was solemnly received in the high church in 1249, the chronicler says : ...« less