Średniowieczne akcenty w traktacie De institutione regii pueri
Medieval Accents in De institutione regii pueri Treatise

Summary/Abstract: De institutione regii pueri is a pedagogical treatise from 1502/1503, which contains a wealth of ideas. Since medieval accents are not observed therein for the most part, the topic of the article is to indicate them. This goal is even more justified because some of them, such as recommendations for ruler’s Christian upbringing – in accordance with specific virtues, Augustine’s thinking about time, the topos of youth and old age and a cheerful face, the category of one’s own and foreign or the emphasis of some of the values cultivated in the Middle Ages, cardinal virtues, are very noticeable in the work. The turn of the eras, in turn, is indicated by a certainly unidentified author’s free combination of old and new beliefs, e.g. the influence of the Christian God and pagan deities as the causative forces in human actions on the fate of rulers. The analysis of the work requires emphasizing an obvious, although sometimes neglected, belief that some views, probably in a changed form, continued from antiquity to the Renaissance, although sometimes they were denied the right to function in the medieval reality.

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