This study is dedicated to the issue of Old-Polish oratory genethliac variant, that is congratulatory speech delivered on occasion of offspring’s birth – in either theoretical and practical aspect. The main part of the study comprises an analysis of a few selected rhetorical lectures from 17th and 18th century manuscripts, which reveals changes occurring in the text’s structure and composition.
“Powinny trybut synowskiej miłości” is a series of oratorical behaviours a noble son was obliged to practise regarding his closest relatives, especially parents. The art of composing letters, and reciting speech as well as congratulation poems on the occasion of various annual festivals started in the Old-Polish period as early as the boy was a few years old. From that time, a Polish nobel child was taught skills that he was to use in his whole life. The article discusses a rich collection of texts from the 17th and 18th centuries that were to be used as the models for imitation, both for the younger and older noble sons.
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« Powinny trybut synowskiej miłości » est l’ensemble de comportements oratoires que le fils de noblesse était obligés de pratiquer envers ses proches, et surtout ses parents. L’apprentissage des garçons de la composition des lettres et de la récitation des oraisons et des poèmes de circonstances à l’occasion de diffèrentes fêtes cycliques commençait à l’époque de l’ancienne Pologne déjà à l’âge de quelques ans. A partir de ce moment ces compétences étaient inculquées à l’enfant pour qu’il en profite pendant toute la vie. Dans l’étude l’auteure présente un riche recueil des textes du XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles qui servaient de modèle aux fils, petits et plus grands, de noblesse.
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