L’argomentazione politica in Antirrēsis di Hipacy Pociej
The Political Argumentation in Hipacy Pociej’s Antirrēsis

Summary/Abstract: The article investigates the interconfessional polemical literature as a valuable source offeringan insight into the major values of the society of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 16th–17th centuries. These texts also help understanding phenomena other than the merely religious ones. In the debate, juridical and political arguments were used too. We focus on the casestudy of Hipacy Pociej’s Antirrēsis (Ruthenian: 1599; Polish: 1600), written in response to MarcinBroniewski’s Apokrisis (1597). Pociej, who had an outstanding political career before becominga Uniate bishop, mastered these arguments perfectly. His work is imbued with the mentality of thecommunitas nobilium, which also played a part in his lexical choices.

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