Strój i grzech - w świetle barokowych egzemplów

• Authors: Renata Ryba
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

Th e essay discusses the process of formulating negative opinions on women’s clothing by baroque moralist writers (mainly priests and preachers), such as Bazyli Rychlewicz, Antoni Węgrzynowicz and Piotr Kwiatkowski. Th ese authors eagerly expressed their views on fashion by means of an exemplum, a genre attractive from a didactical point of view. According to religious criteria, decking oneself out was perceived as belonging to the realm of sin. Writers connected with the Church regarded sumptuous dresses as the eff ect (and also the cause) of such deadly sins as pride, envy or lust. Th e authors of exempla sought for artistic ideas, and above all, moral guidelines, in the Bible. Th e analyzed texts are characterized by a farreaching severity towards various fashion phenomena. In the eyes of baroque moralists, the ‘sin of fashion’ deserved punishment: suff ering and illnesses in the earthly life and eternal damnation after death.

Keywords

PL

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Terminus
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 1(22)

Dates

published

2010

online

2010-10-26

Contributors

author

Renata Ryba