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Cor castum Dei speculum: Emblematics and the Heart Emblem in Jesuit Literature

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Špániová M.

Z Badań nad Książką i Księgozbiorami Historycznymi

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2022

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vol. 16

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issue 3

339-357

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This study focuses on the characteristic features of the emblems, the emblematic procedure, and the main functions, goals, and significance of the emblem books in the context of Jesuit spirituality and practice. It points out some prominent authors of Jesuit emblem books with a major influence on the development of this form of art in literature and art. It focuses on the heart emblem as a symbol of heart purification and on the artistic manifestations of “religio cordis” (the religious cult of the heart). It introduces one of the most popular books with heart emblems published on the territory of present-day Slovakia in the first half of the seventeenth century, the so-called “heart booklet” of Mátyás Hajnal, a typical sample of Jesuit emblematics devoted to the promotion of Catholic reforms at the time of the Counter-Reformation.

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Emblematika v postile Trojí chléb nebeský (1728) barokního kazatele Damascéna Marka

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Němcová Dragonová M.

Listy filologické (Folia philologica)

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2015

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vol. 138

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issue 3-4

299-324

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This paper deals with emblematics in baroque conceptual preaching. It introduces the multimedia genre of the emblem, its visual and literary form in emblematic books and in baroque conceptual preachings of Damascén Marek (1663/1664–1725) in his collection of sermons Trojí chléb nebeský (1728). The text presents main emblematic forms: protoemblematic and emblematic expressions in the text, which are presented on few samples from baroque postil Trojí chléb nebeský in the text appendix. Protoemblematic and emblematic expressions in baroque preachings are literary expressions, structures and excerpts, which contains the descriptions of paintings, or other visual elements, which are inspired with the baroque emblematics and can be interpreted the same as visual emblems. We have determined as protoemblematic expressions the text forms which contain a visual element, but have not got the emblematic three-part structure. Emblematic expressions of the text consist of three parts in the preaching texts: a short motto (inscriptio), a verbal description of painting (pictura) and an explanatory excerpt (subscriptio). Emblematics played the important role in the baroque conceptual preachings. The interpretation of the ecclesiastical texts on the background of the emblematic books can contribute to a deeper understanding of some literary images.

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Samuel Brzeżewski o ludziach i drzewach, czyli emblematyka w kazaniu Oliwa wdzięcznoozdobnej zieloności

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Dybek D.

Terminus

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2012

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vol. 14

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issue 25

95-118

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Samuel Brzeżewki was a Baroque, nowadays forgotten, preacher. There are three sermons hold as his testimony. First two sermons refer to Marian theme; the last one (dated on 1645) is a funeral homily. Oliwa wdzięcznoozdobnej zieloności przysadzonej […] na kazaniu przy pogrzebie […] Gerzego Pucniewskiego is dedicated to a nobleman, Pucniewski. He came from Minor Poland, Abdank Coat of Arms and remained practically an unknown figure. In order to present Pucniewski as a Christian role model, Brzeżewski used a very popular device, symbolism. He intended to create an unconventional as well as memorable picture for his audience. The author compared (referring to the works by Aristotle and verses from the Bible) the man with an olive tree and a palm tree in order to show him humility and piety. Brzeżewski used this symbolism on purpose. He argued that it is important for an imperfect human mind to portray things using symbols and concepts to understand the meaning. Connecting didacticism and mnemonic, the preacher referred to funeral vocabulary. The number of terms shows similarities between genres. This method was not a novelty in the XVIIth century. However it was not always followed with deep understanding on the literary theory. It was more important to create a visual comparison and analogies. Taking this into account, one may state that Brzeżewskis sermons are fairly conventional, yet show authors eloquence.

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Między alegoryzmem a panegiryzmem: Tomasza Tretera „Theatrum virtutum Divi Stanislai Hosii” (rozpoznania)

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Obremski K.

Prace Filologiczne. Literaturoznawstwo

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2016

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issue 6(9)

271-282

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Theatrum virtutum Divi Stanislai Hosii (Rome, 1588), an emblematic work by Tomasz Treter, is the subject of analysis aiming at diagnostic indication of its two dimensions, namely those related to emblems and panegyrics. Comparing apologias of one of the most significant persons in the Catholic church and merely moderate results of Hosius’ combats against evangelists in his diocese (first in the Bishopric of Culm, then diocese of Warmia) allows to call the inhibition of Counter-Reformation in Warmia only a limited success at the very most. The discrepancies between the contents of poems and chalcographies by Treter and their historical veracity reflect the scheme of allegory, which allowed even contradiction of signs and their meanings, and panegyric, with its truth about the past versus lie being fabrication or fiction.

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Wie „übersetzt“ man Embleme? Am Beispiel der Emblem- und Emblematikrezeption im Kiever Kulturmodell der Barockzeit

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Kroll W.

Rocznik Komparatystyczny

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2014

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vol. 5

p. 197-225

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When we define the literary genre of the emblem as a threefold composition, consisting of the inscriptio, pictura and subscriptio, we confront the question of the way the pictura had been translated in the XVII century. Did intermedial translation mean the simple reproduction of the pictura? Or did it mean that the pictura was also subjected to alterations and transformations? The paper argues that the reception of emblems by scholars and students of the Kievo-Mohylanska Akademia was combined with a transformation of the pictura of the emblem, which was formed into a new threefold combination by a process of “projection”, “transposition” and/or “transfiguration” (A. Hansen-Löve) of heraldic and emblematic signs. The trilingual – Polish, Latin and Churchslavonic – emblems of Kievan authors are here described 1) in the context of Jurij Lotman’s semiotic concept of “semiosphere”, and 2) in comparison with the description of neighbouring genres like symbola, hieroglyphica, stemmata in seventeenth-century treatises on rhetorics and poetics. Finally, the paper interprets emblems of Filip Orlyk (Hippomenes sarmacki, 1698) and Stefan Jaworski (Vinograd Christov, 1698) as innovative results of intermedial translation, i. e., of a process of “projection”, “transposition” and “transfiguration” of the pictura.

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O roli wzroku i obrazu w twórczości medytacyjnej Marcina Hińczy

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Bielak A.

Meluzyna. Dawna Literatura i Kultura

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2017

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vol. 1(6)

59-74

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Marcin Hińcza (1592-1668) was a Jesuit priest and writer, author of five devotional books. He was interested in visual arts and their utility in enlisting the believers during the Counter-Reformation combat with the protestants. The first part of the article presents emblem books of Hińcza (Plęsy Anjołów and Chwała z Krzyża) as an example of the Jesuit literary current of emblemata sacra i.e. emblem books used to meditate the life of Christ (exponents of the current: Jan David, Jerónimo Nadal, Antoine Sucquet). The literary current based on the symbolic theology (theologia symbolica, iconomystica) which – as Jacob Masen had described it – implied that symbolic arts can be used as a support in decrypting the meaning of God’s creation. The second part of the article analyses the persuasive functions of emblematic icons in meditative works of Hińcza in the context of Kwintylian’s concept of affectus (gr. pathos). The emotive influence on the spectator of emblematic icons was an element of the Hińcza’s didactic technique whose aim was to enable his readers the moral recollection during meditative exercises.

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