Pietas Humanistica
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This collection of articles presents many aspects of the pietas humanistica - a very special mixture of Christian and classical tradition. The book offers a synthesis of Latin humanistic religious poetry in Poland from the 15 th to the 18 th century, taking into account its broad European context. The authors discuss literary genres, especially prayer and its function, the structure of the speaking subject, biblical motifs and their interpretation or re-reading, the usage of classical tradition, as well as lexical and phraseological aspects (Christian verses vs. pagan sources), an rhetorical…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
This collection of articles presents many aspects of the pietas humanistica - a very special mixture of Christian and classical tradition. The book offers a synthesis of Latin humanistic religious poetry in Poland from the 15 th to the 18 th century, taking into account its broad European context. The authors discuss literary genres, especially prayer and its function, the structure of the speaking subject, biblical motifs and their interpretation or re-reading, the usage of classical tradition, as well as lexical and phraseological aspects (Christian verses vs. pagan sources), an rhetorical structure of poems. An important part of the book consists of articles focused on theological aspects of poetry, i.e. studies in the history of ideas as well as discussing poetry in the context of fundamental theological controversies and medieval tradition.
Autorenporträt
The Editor: Piotr Urbanski is Associate Professor of Neo-Latin Studies and director of the Institute of Polish and Cultural Studies, University of Szczecin. His main fields of interest are 17th century Neo-Latin Poetry in Poland, especially the works of Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, Latin culture in Stettin, Pomerania (today Szczecin, Poland), and rhetoric in early modern and modern culture.