Symbolika urbanistyczna w Jeruzalem mieście Króla Wielkiego Stefana Kucharskiego
The Urbanistic Symbols in Stefan Kucharski's Jerusalem, the City of the Great King

Summary/Abstract: Jerusalem, the City of the Great King is one of the texts by Stefan (in point of fact: Hieronim) Kucharski (1595-1653). The work has been preserved at least in two versions: they are kept in the so called Lublin Cartulary (The Archive of the Polish Province of the Discalced Carmelites, manuscript nr 246, pp. 287-302) and in the collection entitled Various exercises or spiritual lessons and lectures written by the Reverend Father Stefan of St Theresa (The Archive of the Library of Discalced Carmelite Sisters in Krakow, manuscript nr 62, charts 44r-47v).The “lecture” most probably directed to Discalced Carmelite sisters, tackles the issues of a mystical nature and treats about the ways, in which God lives in a man. In Kucharski's text the metaphor is the most important and most often used means of expression. The urban space, characterized by symbols is used by the author as a peculiar allegory expressing his anthropological and theological views.

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