Proměnlivý obr: vzestup a pád protagonisty staročeské Alexandreidy

• Authors: Matouš Jaluška

Title variants

EN

A fickle giant: the rise and fall of the chief protagonist in the Old Czech Alexandreida

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The chief protagonist in the fragments of the Old Czech Alexandreida is usually interpreted as a hero embodying the virtues of a sovereign. This study offers an alternative reading in a comparison with Gautier de Châtillon’s Alexandreida and Ulrich von Etzenbach’s Alexander. The passages set in Troy, Jerusalem and Libya show that the Old Bohemian Alexander rises high only to fall again. This fall is not brought about by any prideful intemperance, as in other versions, but takes the form of a betrayal of the sovereign ruler, the Lord, which mirrors the betrayal to which succumbed Alexander’s father Philip and is underpinned by the fickleness of Alexander’s gigantesque heart.

Keywords

CS

Alexandr Veliký; Aristotelés; Gualter Castellionský; Ulrich von Etzenbach; Jeruzalém; Babylón; exemplum; zrada

EN

Alexander the Great; Aristotle; Gautier de Châtillon; Ulrich von Etzenbach; Jerusalem; Babylon; exemplum; treason

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Česká literatura (Czech Literature)
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 70
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 300-326
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Matouš Jaluška

• Česká literatura, redakce, Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR, v. v. i., Na Florenci 3/1420, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic