Na obcej ziemi – relacja Stefana Jana Ślizienia z mołdawskiej wyprawy („Haracz krwią turecką Turkom wypłacony”)
On Foreign Soil – Stefan Jan Ślizien’s Account of the Moldavian Expedition („Haracz krwią turecką Turkom wypłacony” [„Tribute paid with Turkish blood to the Turks”])

Summary/Abstract: The article considers the poem by Stefan Jan Ślizien entitled Haracz krwią turecką Turkom wypłacony [Tribute paid with Turkish blood to the Turks] in 1674. The work is barely present in historical-literary reflection. Both the work, which is part of a group of numerous texts praising Jan Sobieski’s victory over the Turks near Chocim, and the author himself as a participant in those events deserve closer attention. The last (of four) parts of the work were subject to a closer examination, constituting the poet-soldier’s account of the disastrous expedition of Polish troops to Moldova at the turn of 1673 and 1674, which closed the campaign against the Ottoman enemy. The focus was on how soldiers perceived the foreign reality surrounding them. The real world during war turned out to be unfriendly and the space difficult to get used to. Therefore, the poetic message was saturated with negative emotions, such as disappointment, uncertainty, and fear. In these parts of the text, the work is set in the context of geopoetics whereas from the genological perspective, it was situated in the convention of the “native heroicum”, in the tradition derived from ancient works – the Lucan epic. Comparing the poem against the background of various varieties of old travel accounts, it was noticed that the poem follows a military variant of the “journey” pattern. The findings obtained in this article can be used for further historical and cultural history research.

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