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The material basis of the article is Palma panieńska albo rozprawa o stanie dziewiczym [Virginal Palm or a Treatise on the Virginal State] (Kalisz 1607) as translated by Szymon Wysocki, who faithfully rendered into Polish an Italian work Trattato della verginita et dello stato verginale (Rome 1584) by Basilio Gradi. The article demonstrates that the translation should be associated with the rhetorical culture of the society of the time and analysed as a persuasive text. The paper clarifies that the inventio layer of the work remains in a close connection with dispositio and elocutio. It offers an insight into diversified sources of arguments (references to the biblical tradition, patristic tradition and monastic legislation) as a form of persuasion (inventio), which are supposed to cause changes or reinforce beliefs in the public and motivate them to behave in a specific way. In the range of elocutio the verbal forms of affecting the public are presented, which impel them to take a clearly specified position (in terms of message) and to undertake a specific action. The reflection includes also the remarks about the significance of a communicative function based on appeal-like statements of a recommendatory, warning or admonitory nature.
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The following article presents a reception of St. Theresa of Avila’s works and doctrine in Polish Carmelitan poetry from the XVIII century. The Polish nuns repeatedly gave the sing of deep knowledge of her output. Their songs present laud of St. Theresa, submit her greatness and are accolade and tribute to her. The songs of Polish authors, dedicated to St. Theresa, also represent intimate and liaison dialogue with God. The characteristic traits of carmelitan songs were emotionally tense, full of poetic display as well as simplicity of sign, and therefore providing a substitute for the inability of finding adequate words to describe mystical experiences.
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This article presents Milosz’s faith in God but also his downfall and darkness described in Druga przestrzeń. Milosz made in this work an account of his own life and he summarized the era in which he lived. He mostly broached the problems concerning faith and despair and questions about the omnipresence of God. Druga przestrzeń is a religious poet’s declaration looking for God, the Absolute who resides in this second space, unobtainable for human beings here on earth. This volume is a contemplation of eschata, a metaphysical seeking of answers to the Author’s nagging questions and his getting across to the other dimension. The poet persistently aspired for this title “second space” throughout his life. Druga przestrzeń showed the longing for deep faith, which is transforming and thanks to faith, human beings can become experienced by God’s love.
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The article analyses the structure of the prayer present in The Prayer to Saint Józef Herman, contained in XVH century manuscript of Prayer Book by Krystyna Szembekówna. Józef Herman was a Mediaeval ascetic writer, the representative of the Rhine mystics. His Mass to Mystery of Incarnation and to Virgin Mary, rooted in mystical experience, like: ecstasy and visions, earned him an appellation of “the second Joseph" (that was why it was added to his first name). In The Prayer to Saint Józef Herman by Krystyna Szembekówna there are five structural elements of a prayer: anaclesis (invocation of God), anamnesis (remembering of God’s deeds motivating the request), request (introducing formula and object of prayer), conclusion (doxological formula, expressing adoration of God) and acclamation. The structural scheme which had survived in the prayer proves that form reflects and at the same time enhances intensity o f religious experiences. However, the beauty of the prayer is expressed not only by its form, but also by the way the experience of holy figures is presented.
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The subject of this article is the presentation of issues futility and transience found in the manuscript of Medytacje (“Meditations”) by Teresa Petrycówna (about 1629-1700), a Norbertine nun in the Krakow monastery in Zwierzyniec. The first part of the ar - ticle gives the story of the Norbertine monastery in Zwierzyniec, presents characte- ristics of the congregation, and describes the figure and works of Teresa Petrycówna. Attention is also drawn to the inspiration and interpretive contexts present in her re- flections. The core part of the paper shows, based on the example of Petrycówna’s thought, that the idea of futility and transience of the world and the misery of the human condition also guided the Krakow Norbertine. The vanitative topoi used by her, as well as metaphors and comparisons, are an expression of general ideas abo- ut temporality. The theme of mortality present in these meditations was intended to encourage nuns to proper conduct during their earthly pilgrimage.
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Tematem artykułu jest przedstawienie problematyki marności i przemijalności występującej w rękopiśmiennych Medytacjach Teresy Petrycówny (ok. 1629–1700), norbertanki krakowskiego klasztoru na Zwierzyńcu. We wstępnej części artykułu przybliża się m.in. historię klasztoru Norbertanek na Zwierzyńcu, przedstawia charakterystyczne cechy duchowości zgromadzenia, prezentuje sylwetkę oraz rękopiśmienną twórczość Teresy Petrycówny. Zwraca się również uwagę na inspiracje i konteksty interpretacyjne obecne w rozmyślaniach. W zasadniczej części artykułu pokazuje się na przykładzie rozmyślań Petrycówny, że idea marności, przemijalności świata oraz nędzy kondycji ludzkiej przyświecała również krakowskiej norbertance. Wykorzystane przez nią wanitatywne toposy, metafory oraz porównania służą wyrażeniu ogólnej myśli o doczesności. Występująca w medytacjach myśl o kresie życia doczesnego miała za zadanie zachęcić zakonnice do właściwego postępowania podczas ziemskiej peregrynacji.
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The article presents the conceit in the Polish baroque sermon Pszczółka w bursztynie [A Bee in Amber] of a Bernardine Franciszek Sitański. In the sermon the author presents the figure of St. Dorothy; he also draws attention to the virtues of Dorota Kątska, who was the abbess of St. Norbert’s Order in Zwierzyniec (near Cracow) in the 17th century, and most of all he praises the monastic way of life. Biblical and hagiographic arguments, a source of inspiration for the author as an effective means of persuasion, appeal to the imagination of the audience. Metaphors, analogies and comparisons in the sermon prove that Pszczółka w bursztynie is based upon the conceit. By using the arguments Sitański was trying not only to move the recipients, but mainly to persuade them to cultivate virtues presented by Christian heroines.
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This article presents an analysis of two meditative lectures (poetic songs) about God’s love which appeared in Kasper Twardowski’s poem entitled Pochodnia miłości Bożej z piącią strzał ognistych, the shorter First Song delivered by Mary Mother of God and the longer Fifth Song presented by Mary Magdalene. In both of these poetic lectures, the poet showed the power of God’s love to human beings and man’s pursuit of the mystic union with The Creator. Twardowski’s poem, which was classified as meditative literature, so popular in Baroque, was based on the art of meditation and the ideas of Ignatius of Loyola. The poem is regarded as autobiographical and written with didactic objectives. The author probably thought that his personal internal history deserved propagating and his spiritual conversion will offer readers a specific exemplum which will encourage imitating virtue.
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This article presents the images of saint women, female martyrs of Christianity, which featured in Kontemplacja Męki of an anonymous manuscript entitled Kontemplacja Męki i śmierci Chrystusa Pana. The manuscript dates back to the 17th century and is stored in the archives of the Sisters of St. Norbert’s Order in Cracow. A thesis can be put forward that the author of this manuscript belonged to this abbey. Among the saint women presented in the manuscript there are: St. Agatha, St. Agnes, St. Brigid, St. Cecilia, Catherine of Siena and St. Paula of Rome. This article adduces evidence that Kontemplacja Męki shows visible influences of Piotr Skarga’s Żywoty świętych, as well as Ignatius Loyola’s method of applicatio sensuum, which testifies to the sublime style of the manuscript.
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This article presents the literary accomplishments of Polish nuns in the 17th and 18th centuries. These cloistered writings experienced their height of development at The Order of the Carmelite Nuns in Cracow. Literature was also a pursuit of the female Benedictines of the Chełmno congregation, the female Bernardines, Poor Clares, Sisters of St. Norbert’s Order, and Sisters of the Visitation. The nuns dealt in the writing of chronicles autobiographies, prayers, conferences, spiritual songs, and other religious works. In addition to their literary pursuits, the Sisters of the Visitation also were concerned with translation activities and both the Benedictine nuns and Sisters of the Visitation were active in the field of publishing. The Polish female orders were not only a place of spiritual contemplation, prayers, and worship but also a budding environment for the literary life.
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The purpose of this article is to present, based on the second part of the „Manual of Spiritual Exercise” (Elementarzyk ćwiczenia duchownego, Kraków 1626) by Mikołaj of Mościska (1559–1632), the role of stylistic literary devices in the description of meditative mechanisms and the results of this experience — the inner transformation of Man, and the experience of closeness to and unification with God. The author will also draw attention to the significance of senses in the cognitive process, and consequently imagination, enabling one to picture the images contained in metaphors. The category of perceptibility, which is accentuated in the text, served to present objects and phenomena in a “realistic” manner. Thus, focus will be placed on the imaging tools through which the 17th century author attempted to draw metaphysical matters closer to the reader’s senses.
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This article concerns the representation of two women: St. Dorothy, a martyr of Caeserea Mazaca, and Dorota Kątska, abbess of the Norbertines Order in the Zwierzyniec near Kraków, based on the sermon of the Bernadine Franciszek Sitański (ca. 1590–1643), entitled „The Bee in Amber” („Pszczółka w bursztynie”, Kraków 1627). The author shall prove that in the sermon given on the nameday of the Norbetine abbess, the preacher largely focused on St. Dorothy. The portraits of the „Christian women” present the virtues of the heroines to commemorate their deeds, as well as encourage the sermon’s recipients to follow the example of these virtues.
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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.
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The subject of the article is the presentation of the functions of metaphors and their force as a means of visualisation, based on the example of Polish religious prose of 17 th century. Attention is paid to the role of visual sphere and the methods of translation of visuality into the subject matter of language. The article discusses the inextricable connection between the category of visualization and the figure of metaphor. Examples are provided mainly by two 17 th century works, a sermon by an Observant Franciszek Sitański Pszczółka w bursztynie (The bee in amber) (Kraków 1627) and meditations by Alberyk Kościński, entitled Pieszczoty duszne abo zabawy ludziom z raju ziemskiego wygnanym do niebieskiego raju pielgrzymującym barzo pożyteczne (Spiritual delicacies or games useful to men banished from the Earthly Paradise to the Heavenly Paradise) (Poznań 1695). Some other baroque works are also included in the reflection, for example: Droga do wieczności abo dwanaście znaków przejrzenia do nieba… (Road to eternity or the twelve signs of the perception of Heaven) (Kraków 1632) of Jeremi Drexeliusz or Szata wzorzysta doskonałości, zakonnicę w oczach Boskich zdobiąca i wszelkim stanom ludzi żyć duchownie pragnących pożyteczna (The patterned robe of perfection worn by the nun before the eyes of God and useful to all people wishing to lead a spiritual life) (Kraków 1649) of Daniel Zieliński. All these works prove that a metaphor is a best tool for the visualization of sacred reality and expression of religious aspects.
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