Duch Święty w kontekście pobożności maryjnej polskiego średniowiecza
The Holy Spirit in the Context of St Mary’s Devotion in the Polish Middle Ages

Texts about Annunciation, Incarnation, and Assumption

Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt at interpreting the Polish and Latin texts in which a relation between Heavenly Mother and the Holy Spirit in the mystery of the Annunciation, the Incarnation, and the Assumption of Mary is found. The examined pieces, originally composed in Latin, have been selected from liturgical documents, such as “Graduał cieszyński (Gradual of Cieszyn),” “Antyfonarz jasnogórski (Antiphons of Jasna Góra),” “Antyfonarz” Chwalisława z Nysy (“Antiphons” of Chwalisław of Nysa) and a collection of sequences “Cantica medii aevi Polono-Latina.” The texts are for the first time translated into Polish. Two editions, namely “Średniowieczna pieśń religijna polska (Medieval Polish Religious Song)” and “Żywot Pana Jezu Krysta (The Life of Jesus Christ)” by Baltazar Opeć, were used to analyse the Polish texts. Explications of the texts effort to clear the theological contexts, developing the possibly richest intertextual platform through indicating loci communes of the analysed pieces as well as those that might have given inspiration to their authors. In their philological analysis attention is paid to aesthetic value of those poetic prayers.

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