Trzy drogi do świętości (na podstawie dramatów Hroswity z Gandersheim)
Three roads to holiness (based on dramas of Hrosvit of Gandersheim)
Author(s): Aleksandra AraszkiewiczSubject(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.
Journal: Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium Graecae et Latinae
- Issue Year: XXVI/2016
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 171-184
- Page Count: 14
- Language: Polish