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Trzy drogi do świętości (na podstawie dramatów Hroswity z Gandersheim)
Three roads to holiness (based on dramas of Hrosvit of Gandersheim)

Author(s): Aleksandra Araszkiewicz
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Studies of Literature, Theology and Religion
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: personal patterns of the Middle Ages; heroism; martyrdom; penance; meditatio mortis

Summary/Abstract: The article contains presentation of personal patterns, which might be identified in six Hrosvit of Gandersheim’s dramas (10th century). Based on plots, works were split into three groups: heroic, martyrological and penitential(secluded). Main idea which exists in all Hrosvit’s dramas is meditatio mortis (death rehearsal), which isa tendency characteristic for the Middle Ages.

  • Issue Year: XXVI/2016
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 171-184
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish