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The aim of this paper is to present a fragment of Wykład nabożny piosnki „Salve Regina” (A pious interpretation of the song “Salve Regina”), a ca. mid-16th-century manuscript by Jerzy Argiglobyn, in the context of the Reformation by means of a lexical and semantic analysis of the sequative names (Lat. nomina sequativa) and proper names occurring there. The selection of the fragment was determined by the fact that, on the one hand, it is the essence of the discussed manuscript as a polemic work, which arises from the accumulation of references to the Reformation, and on the other hand, this fragment is the most problematic one when it comes to a lexical and semantic analysis. The author of the manuscript, when referring to the Reformation, enumerates the names of the theologians associated with it and mentions the places important to the new faith and the followers of the proliferating Reformation denominations. He provides each piece of such information in a manner presenting it in a negative, at times even insulting, light.
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2013
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vol. 21
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issue 3
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This article is an attempt to analyze the functions, which Piotr Skarga gives in parts of Żywoty świetych focused on the martyrdom of Jesuits. Their biographies can be considered as the argument in the current debate on true and false martyrdom. Skarga, referring to the authority of The Bible and the works of the Church fathers, tried to prove that only the Catholic martyrs are the true ones. Persecutions of Jesuits in England, France, and during the missions to India and to the Americas are also an opportunity for Skarga to show how groundless the allegations are against the Jesuits. In the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, they were accused of pernicious influence on king’s political decisions and greed. Author of Żywoty świętych, using the examples from the life and martyrdom of Jesuits attempted to rehabilitate the opinion of his order.
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The article presents ways of using motives related to family matters in Old Polish documents written by catholic and Protestant polemicists in both metaphorical and reality oriented content. As the analysed materials shows it was a common practice to use family related motives in religious polemics and to describe real or fictitious pathological phenomena. However, there is no a positive vision of marriage and family in the discussed polemic works. Recalling phenomena unacceptable for the society of that period was aimed at creating a proper image of a religious opponent. However, it led to significant simplification of theological argumentation.
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The aim of this paper is the description of the literature of Marcin Czechowic through the pragmatic aspects of a religious war of words. Such analysis is aimed at identification of both the sender’s intention as well as the ways of their realization. This way of analysis allowed identifying two main communication strategies in the Czechowic’s writings: the conciliation strategy which conciliates protagonists of the author’s ideology by creating the positive picture of Arian and abomination strategy which discouraged people from Arian’s religious opponents by creating their negative image. As a result, three models of the 16th century religious polemics can be distinguished: polemics of invective (rare in the writings of Czechowic), polemics of suggestion (i.e. subtile and hidden persuasive statements) and polemics of arguments.
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The subject of the article are viewpoints of Johann Regius and Conrad Graser the Older, pastors and scholars connected with Torun’s Academic Gymnasium School at the beginning of the 17th century, referring to the worship of images. On the basis of the polemical texts of Graser Historia Antichristi and Ultima Verba it was shown that in his polemics there appeared many topoi typical of Protestant argumentation in the dispute about the worship of pictures taking place between Catholics and advocates of Reformed denominations. The most important place is occupied by the belief about the resemblance between the Catholic cult described in the Old Testament and the worship given to idols, as well as the criticism of extravagant temples and ceremonies. Graser’s polemics was directed against the Catholics and perhaps the Lutherans; it was connected with the phenomenon of the Second Reformation in Prussian towns of the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries. The statements not only prove that Toruń’s and Gdańsk’s Protestants were familiar with the basic arguments in the dispute about the worship of pictures in its European context, but they also demonstrate the manner in which the Protestant doctrine could affect the form of works of art created in Toruń in the epoch of the dominance of Reformed denominations. Finally, the source of Melchior Adam was cited, which referred to the burial of Graser and his epitaph. This proves that funerary art, embracing the biggest number of works of art to be found in churches taken over by Protestants in Toruń and other Prussian towns, was accepted even by the most radical opponents of the worship of images.
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The subjects of the article are genesis and history of the Reformation in the writings of Piotr Skarga, most fully shown in his polemics with Hieronim Moskorzowski, specifically in the first “Abashment of the Arians” (1604). An argument with Arian writer is crucial for mentioned issues, because the Royal Preacher derived all factions of the Reformation from one ancestor — Arius. Skarga was relying his historical narration on the marks of the True Church (“via notarum”). He was convincing that not having any of those marks had direct influence on shaping and existence of the Reformation. An author in his writings therefore was undertaking an issue of history of the heterodox communities, with intention to present it in the specific historiosophical perspective.
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The development of Protestant communities in the Republic of Poland caused the response of Catholics. Catholic theologians conducted many theological debates, both in writing as long as disputes, usually held in churches. Both Catholic and Protestant polemicists spoke at times about the dispute itself, describing it as a quarrel with a tiresome neighbour or, directly, as a war. In this article I show that the authors I discuss referred to polemics as a war in a metaphorical and real sense. On the metaphorical level, it was a continuation of a long tradition of describing spiritual life in military terms, and on the level of physical reality, it was about linking the religious doctrine with the current socio-political reality.
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In this paper I focus on Jakub Niemojewski’s book Odpowiedź na książki… które pisał przeciwko Conffesiej bracie naszej krześciańskiej… Przy tym odpowiedź na historią kacerzstwa Hussowego, którego ten pobożny człowiek nigdy nie by winien in which Niemojewski tries to present Jan Hus biography in context of early modern confessional discusses between Catholics and Protestants. Niemojewski’s book is one of the first attempts to construct Protestant historiography in Polish language, yet it remains a typical example of humanistic historic writing at same time typical. It leads to conclusion that Niemojewski is interesting but almost completely forgotten author, who played important role in Polish Reformation. 
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W artykule niniejszym staram się przedstawić niemal zapomnianą postać Jakuba Niemojewskiego, ważnego przedstawiciela polskich ruchów reformacyjnych z połowy XVI wieku. Skupiam się na polemice religijnej zatytułowanej Odpowiedź na książki… które pisał przeciwko Conffesiej bracie naszej krześciańskiej… Przy tym odpowiedź na historią kacerzstwa Hussowego, którego ten pobożny człowiek nigdy nie by winien, w której Niemojewski przedstawia biografię Jana Husa. W efekcie Niemojewski tworzy podstawy protestanckiej pamięci historycznej, przy równoczesnym odwoływaniu się do humanistycznych wartości. 
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The reviewed book is the eleventh in the series devoted to the “Culture of the First Polish Republic in dialogue with Europe. Hermeneutics of values”. This series is the aftermath of an interesting research project, whose aim is both to comprehensively present the cultural relations of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth with Europe, as well as to recognize the ways and forms of mutual communication of literary, aesthetic, political and religious values. In addition, it aims to present in a broad comparative context the structure of Early Modern culture of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Apart from the introduction, the book contains the dissertations of 11 authors originating from various scientific centers in Poland and abroad (Toruń, Białystok, Vilnius, Venice, Padua, Cracow, Poznań, Rzeszów) and representing different research specialties: philology, history, and history of art. The general and primary goal of the text it is to analyze various aspects of the Ruthenian culture of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, both in its dynamic connection with the Polish-Latin culture and the processes occurring in Eastern European Orthodoxy after the fall of the Byzantine Empire and in connection with the strengthening of the Moscow state. The key issues developed in the volume relate essentially to: values of the Ruthenian culture, some of which coincide or are identical to those recognized by Western-Polish citizens of the Commonwealth, while depend on the centuries old tradition of Eastern-Christian culture.The articles focuses on the values displayed in the Orthodox and Uniate spheres and around the polemics between them, punching with axiological arguments. The most frequently and basic problems that were raised are: determinants of identity, faith (religion), language (languages), social status, origin; the policy of rulers, the problem of ecclesiastical jurisdiction; tradition and change in culture – biblical studies, patristics, liturgy, theology; printing, translations, education; apologetics and polemics, preaching, iconography; a renewal program for the clergy that was to become the vanguard of the renewal of the entire Eastern Church; Bazylian Uniate ( Greek- Catholic) clergy: the idea of cultural integration, education, translation and publishing.
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It is the objective of this paper to seek out new interpretational procedures for the text of Saint Prokopius Sláva svatoprokopská (1662) by Fridrich Bridel and for early modern Czech hagiography in general. In spite of the intensive interest in Bridel, considered to be one of the chief representatives of Czech literary Baroque, literary history has hitherto paid scant attention to his Sláva svatoprokopská. The greatest obstacle to interpretation of this text written by Bridel was clearly that it was neither an original work in the sense of the modern-era aesthetic of genius nor a work of interest from the standpoint of the history of editing or text criticism (Bridel was not endeavouring to make some medieval hagiographical text available in line with the Bollandists). So what could possibly interest literary history about a hagiographical text that was intentionally written as a compilation of numerous older and contemporary texts and that almost programmatically intended to „merely“ reduplicate? One possible solution is provided if a compilation is appraised as one of the basic practices of textual production during the pre-modern period, whose task it was to gather knowledge dispersed in various texts and to systematically arrange it and make it available in condensed form within a single book, thus facilitating fast and easy access to the claims of the authorities. Compilation is one of the textual procedures involved in the targeted treatment of literary manifestations of the past, reminding us that literary output also involves an aspect whereby existing texts are rewritten, and it may be a highly creative act. Although Sláva svatoprokopská is a text that emphasizes acceptance, its relationship to the cited texts is not simply repetition and confirmation of the textual connection, but it is much more complex: the text copying in it not only involves (commenting) additions, but at the same time the accepted piece often recontextualizes in a radically different way, transforming and rewriting. This study attempts to present in detail this creative treatment of adopted textual material and the complexity of the intertextual connections between Sláva svatoprokopská, including analyses of the exception, reductive and compressive techniques used by Bridel, along with his selection criteria. Hence our objective was not to find out what Sláva svatoprokopská can testify about the first abbot of the Sázava Monastery as a historical figure, but all it can testify about Czech hagiographic discourse in the 1660s, which ideals are involved in this text on Saint Prokopius, which meanings are ascribed to him and which text strategies are used to achieve those ends, and not least, how this text relates to the (literary) past, which meanings are ascribed in it to the (Czech) Middle Ages. As Bridel’s literary compilation technique was by no means unique in its day, this paper also attempts to offer a functional tool for the analysis of Czech hagiography and 17th and 18th century Czech religious prose in general.
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Cílem stati je hledání nových interpretačních přístupů k legendě o svatém Prokopovi Sláva svatoprokopská (1662) Fridricha Bridela a k české hagiografii raného novověku vůbec. Navzdory intenzivnímu zájmu o F. Bridela, považovaného za jednoho z hlavních představitelů českého literárního baroka, totiž literární dějepisectví jeho Slávě svatoprokopské dosud téměř nevěnovalo pozornost. Zřejmě největší překážkou při interpretaci tohoto Bridelova textu bylo, že nejde ani o originální autorský výkon ve smyslu novodobé estetiky génia, ani o počin zajímavý z hlediska dějin editování či textové kritiky (Bridel neusiloval o zpřístupnění některého středověkého hagiografického textu v intencích bollandistů). Co tedy může literární historii zajímat na hagiografickém textu, který záměrně vznikl jako kompilát z mnoha starších i soudobých textů a téměř programově chtěl „pouze“ opakovat? Možné východisko se nabízí v docenění kompilace jako jedné ze základních praxí literární tvorby v předmoderní době, jejímž úkolem bylo shromáždit vědění roztroušené v různých textech, smysluplně ho uspořádat a zpřístupnit v kondenzované formě v rámci jediné knihy, a tak umožnit rychlý a snadný přístup k výrokům autorit. Kompilace náleží k textovým postupům cíleného nakládání s literárními projevy minulosti, připomínaje, že literární produkce v sobě obsahuje též rozměr přepisování již existujících textů, a může být i výsostně tvůrčím aktem. Sláva svatoprokopská je sice textem zdůrazňujícím přejímání, její vztah k citovaným textům ovšem není jednoduše opakující a stvrzující textovou návazností, nýbrž je mnohem složitější: textové opisování v ní není spojeno jen s (komentujícím) dopisováním, přejímané se zároveň mnohdy radikálně odlišně rekontextualizuje, transformuje a přepisuje. Studie se toto tvořivé nakládání s převzatým textovým materiálem a vůbec komplexitu intertextových vazeb Slávy svatoprokopské pokouší blíže představit, a to včetně analýzy Bridelem užitých excerpčních, reduktivních a komprimačních technik i selekčních kritérií. Naším cílem tedy nebylo pátrání po tom, co může Sláva svatoprokopská vypovědět o historické osobě prvního opata Sázavského kláštera, nýbrž co (vše) vypovídá o českém katolickém hagiografickém diskursu 60. let 17. století, jaké ideály se v tomto textu do sv. Prokopa projikují a jaké významy jsou mu připisovány i jaké textové strategie se k tomu používají, a v neposlední řadě jak se tento text vztahuje k (literární) minulosti, jaké významy se v něm připisují (českému) středověku. A jelikož Bridelova kompilační technika literární tvorby nebyla ve své době nijak ojedinělá, pokouší se tato stať zároveň nabídnout funkční nástroj k analýze české hagiografie, resp. české náboženské prózy 17. a 18. století vůbec.
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The “Catechism of Nesvizh” refers to a very long tradition of this genre. It is; however, the first catechism published in the old Belarusian language. It contains first of all rules of the Calvinist doctrine presented on the basis of three texts important for all Christians: the Decalogue, Our Father prayer and the Creed.   Catechisms were not used for the purpose of a regular faith-related discussion; however, the analysed text contains parts that are a polemic with teaching in the Roman Catholic Church and in the Orthodox Church. Especially the following theses were discussed in great detail: the Harrowing of Hell, celibacy of the clergy, prayers to saints and iconolatry. In this article, I present methods used by the author of the “Catechism of Nesvizh” (Nesvizh – in Polish „Nieśwież” – a place in Poland) – Szymon Budny, while criticizing formal statements contrary to the Calvinist doctrine. I also pay attention to knowledge of both reality and the literature of the Orthodox Church shown by the author of the discussed work as well as to methodological reliability. This can be seen in the light of the fact that Szymon Budny presents his critical attitude towards theological theses rather than towards religious communities authorizing those statements.
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Katechizm nieświeski nawiązuje do bardzo długiej tradycji tego gatunku. Jest on jednak pierwszym katechizmem wydanym w języku starobiałoruskim. Zawiera  przede wszystkim wykład doktryny kalwińskiej, przedstawiony za pomocą trzech ważnych dla wszystkich chrześcijan tekstów: Dekalogu, modlitwy Ojcze nasz i wyznania wiary. Katechizmy nie były używane do prowadzenia systematycznej dyskusji wyznaniowej, jednak analizowany katechizm zawiera  fragmenty, które są polemiką z nauczaniem Kościoła katolickiego oraz prawosławnego.  Szczególnie dokładnie  omówione zostały takie tezy, jak: zstąpienie Chrystusa do otchłani, celibat duchowieństwa, modlitwa do świętych i kult obrazów.  W niniejszym artykule przedstawiam  metody, jakimi posługuje się autor Katechizmu nieświeskiego - Szymon Budny - krytykując twierdzenia niezgodne z doktryną kalwińską. Zwracam również uwagę na znajomość  realiów i literatury prawosławnej, prezentowaną przez  autora omawianego dzieła  oraz na rzetelność metodologiczną, która przejawia się w tym, że Szymon Budny odnosi się krytycznie raczej do określonych tez teologicznych niż do wspólnot wyznaniowych, które te twierdzenia autoryzowały.
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Несвижский катехизис восходит к долгой традиции этого жанра. При этом он является первым катехизисом, изданным на старобелорусском языке. Прежде всего он содержит изложение кальвинистской доктрины в виде трех важнейших для всех христиан текстов: Десять заповедей, молитва «Отче наш» и основные постулаты веры. Катехизисы не использовались в религиозных дискуссиях, однако анализируемый текст содержит фрагменты, которые полемизируют с учением католического костела и православной церкви. Особенно подробно они затрагивают такие тезисы, как сошествие Христа в Лимб, безбрачие духовенства, молитвы к святым, культ икон. В данной статье представлены методы, которыми пользовался автор Несвижского катехизиса – Симон Будный, критикуя постулаты, противоречащие кальвинистской доктрине. Обращается также внимание на знание православных реалий и православной литературы, демонстируемое Симоном Будным, и продуктивность его методологии, проявляющуюся в критическом отношении к теологическим тезисам, но не к религиозным общинам, их исповедющим.
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This study focuses on the work of Havel Phaëton Žalanský (1567–1621), a highly prolific author of religious and moralistic works in the first quarter of the 17th century, analysing his output within the framework of current research into humanism in the Czech lands. It examines the genre principles, typical contemporary themes and characteristic imagery of Žalanský’s treatises as well as the use of humanist and classical pretexts. Havel Phaëton Žalanský is a standard author from the late humanist period, but his particular features include a leaning towards the Calvinist Reformation and distinctive eschatological ideas and examples from history, while his texts have a polemical slant and are stylistically characterized by a departure from the higher style of what is known as Veleslavín Czech.
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