„Nabożne westchnienia” Mikołaja Mieleszki wobec piśmiennictwa ascetyczno-mistycznego

• Authors: Kaczor-Scheitler, Katarzyna

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Mikołaj Mieleszko’s “Pious Sighs” towards ascetic-mystical literature

Abstracts

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The article points to a relationship between Mikołaj Mieleszko’s "Pious Sighs" ("Nabożne westchnienia"; 1657) and the ascetic-mystical literature of the 17th century. This work particularly shows the meditative character of Mieleszko’s emblems. It also presents the division of the work into three books introduced by Mieleszko, which can be viewed in the context of the model of the three-stage mystical way to God (via purgativa, via illuminativa, via unitiva), employed by St. Ignatius of Loyola but known already by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and fully expressed by St. Bonaventure. The article also discusses the participation of human faculties in the emblems: memory, intellect, will, imagination, and feelings, which are so important in the act of meditation. Referring to the method of applying senses (applicatio sensuum), originating from the Church tradition (Origen, St. Bonaventure) and taken over by St. Ignatius of Loyola, the work emphasizes Mieleszko’s need to apply it in his emblems. Moreover, the article focuses on the influence of Kasper Drużbicki’s and St. Teresa of Ávila’s works visible in Mieleszko’s poems. The themes, allegories, symbols and metaphors of the ascetic-mystical literature reverberate in the emblems of the Baroque poet.

Keywords

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emblem; Mikołaj Mieleszko; ascetic-mystical literature; Kasper Drużbicki; St. Teresa of Ávila; St. Ignatius of Loyola; applicatio sensuum; emblemat; literatura ascetyczno-mistyczna; św. Teresa z Ávila; św. Ignacy Loyola

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 30
• Issue: 4

Dates

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2015

Contributors

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Kaczor-Scheitler, Katarzyna

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Uniwersytet Łódzki, Wydział Filologiczny, Instytut Filologii Polskiej, Katedra Literatury Dawnej i Nauk Pomocniczych; ul. Pomorska 171/173, 90-236 Łódź

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Identifiers

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http://hdl.handle.net/11089/19293

DOI

10.18778/1505-9057.30.01