Trzy korony księżnej. Postać św. Elżbiety Węgierskiej w funkcji wzorca osobowego w hagiografii polskiej XVI-XVIII wieku
Three crowns of Princes. The figure of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary as a pattern in Polish Hagiography of the XVI – XVIII centuries

Summary/Abstract: The paper aims at the presentation of St. Elizabeth of Hungary (1207-1231) as a role model for the 16th-18th century literary audience in Poland, especially women. The period hagiographical sources (lives of saints, sermon examples) tend to promote the saint as an exemplary representative of three states of life as a maid, wife and widow. This idea has got its iconographical equivalent in pictorial and sculptural images of Elizabeth with three crowns as one of her attributes. The three mentioned dimensions of Elizabeth’s sainthood make the heroine a universal, multipurpose patroness, fully acceptable as a source of Christian perfection for the Polish post-Trident laity.

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