Staropolskie zbiory wskazówek obywatelskich. Wybrane zagadnienia

• Authors: Eliza Orman

Title variants

EN

Highlights of Old Polish Collections of Instructive Texts for Citizens

Abstracts

EN

It was typical of people living at the time of burgeoning democracy to ask how to live and act in order to gain respect among fellow citizens. Different authors across Europe were trying to respond to those questions. So were those from the First Polish Republic. Some Polish authors worked on translations of Western works (e.g. Łukasz Górnicki). Others followed the convention of writing texts in Latin (e.g. Andrzej Maksymilian Fredro). Still others, like Mikołaj Rej, preferred simplicity of content. Form and individual elements of the collection of warnings and instructions varied. However, they were always aimed at the reader who was willing to play a part in society and politics.

Keywords

EN

citizen; civic duties; courtier-politician; literary reception of composition literary sources; moralization; personal pattern; politics; speculum

• Publisher: Fundacja Pro Scientia Publica
• Journal: Ogrody Nauk i Sztuk
• Year: 2012
• Issue: 2

Dates

published

2012

Contributors

author

Eliza Orman

Identifiers

ISSN

2084-1426