Ut figura sit. Beda Czcigodny o tropach Pisma

• Authors: Wojciech Ryczek

Title variants

EN

Ut figura sit: Bede the Venerable on tropes of the Scripture

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The main purpose of the paper is to discuss thirteen tropes presented by the Venerable Bede, a Benedictine monk from the Kingdom of Northumbria, in the manual On figures and tropes (De schematibus et tropis, ca. 710), dedicated to his disciple, Cuthbert. Using the definitions and examples given by Donatus (Ars maior), Bede described thirteen tropes and their variants: metaphor, catachresis, metalepsis, metonymy, antonomasia, epithet, synecdoche (totum a parte, pars a toto), onomatopoeia, periphrasis, hyperbaton (histerologia, anastrophe, paren­thesis, tmesis, synchysis), hyperbole, allegory (irony, antiphrasis, enigma, chari­entism, paremia, sarcasm, asteism), and homoeosis (icon, parable, paradigm). Each of these rhetorical devices was illustrated with examples drawn from the Scripture. Therefore, the categories form the grammatical tradition were trans­formed into the exegetical means, particularly useful during reading the Bible and discovering its hidden meanings. Deploying tropes for interpretative purposes, Bede proposed the model of exegesis concentrated on both what is signified and the mode of signification.

Keywords

PL

Beda Czcigodny; tropy; figury retoryczne; egzegeza biblijna

EN

the Venerable Bede; tropes; rhetorical figures; biblical exegesis

• Publisher: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
• Journal: Vox Patrum
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 69
• Pages: 573-594

Dates

published

2018-12-16

Contributors

author

Wojciech Ryczek

Identifiers

DOI

10.31743/vp.3276