'HE DESCENDED INTO HELL. ON THE THIRD DAY HE ROSE AGAIN'? - A GLOSS TO 'THE HISTORY OF THE GLORIOUS RESURRECTION OF OUR LORD'

• Authors: Kowzan J.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The aim of this paper is to point out the inversion of the Easter events in the Polish sixteenth-century mystery play 'Historyja o chwalebnym Zmartwychstaniu Panskim' (The History of the Glorious Resurrection of Our Lord) allegedly by Mikolaj z Wilkowiecka. In the fourth scene of the play the Harrowing of hell is presented. It is usually believed that Christ descended into the underworld between his death on the cross and the Resurrection. In 'Historyja ...', however, Jesus first rises from the dead, then he descends into hell to harrow it and to rescue his faithful. Such a sequence of events contradicts the widely accepted chronology of Christ's redemptive work and, to the best of author's knowledge, has been overlooked hitherto by Polish scholarship.

Keywords

EN

MIKOLAJ Z WILKOWIECKA (THE HISTORY OF THE GLORIOUS RESURRECTION OF OUR LORD)

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Instytut Badań Literackich PAN
• Journal: Pamiętnik Literacki
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 99
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 173-178
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Kowzan J.

• J. Kowzan, Akademia Podlaska, ul. 3 Maja 54, 08-110 Siedlce, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08PLAAAA05239925