Krzyż jako symbol władzy kosmicznej w bizantyńsko-słowiańskiej tradycji literackiej

• Authors: Jan Stradomski

Title variants

EN

Cross as the symbol of cosmic power in Byzantine and Slavic literary and liturgical tradition

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The image of a cross appearing in the sky has been present in Christian literature not only in the body of texts related to several saints, but it has also become one of the most favourite motives of Christian apocryphal literature, especially in its apocalyptic and eschatological section. Revelation of Pseudo-Methodius Patarensis, which is very popular in Medieval literature, is an example of using the motive of a cross as a symbol of cosmic power to illustrate the scenario of the apocalypse and the second advent awaited by Christians. In the apocryphal text, the image of the cosmic cross serves, inter alia, the purpose of graphic and suggestive presentation of the fundamental axiom of that period concerning the existence and co-dependence of two intermingling parallel worlds, namely the earthly (material, mundane) and the heavenly one (divine, eternal). The text constitutes an example of building apocryphal narrative on the basis of a precise semantic code of the Christian vision of times (the past and also the future) testifying to its multi-faceted mythological, biblical, historical and literary implications.

Keywords

PL

hagiografia; apokryfy eschatologiczne; literatura cerkiewnosłowiańska; rękopisy cyrylickie; semiotyka

EN

hagiography; eschatology apocrypha; Church-Slavonic literature; Cyrillic manuscripts; semiotics

• Publisher: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Prace Filologiczne. Literaturoznawstwo
• Year: 2017
• Issue: 7(10)
• Pages: 205-215

Dates

published

2017-06-01

Contributors

author

Jan Stradomski

• Uniwersytet Jagielloński

Identifiers

DOI

10.32798/pflit.88