Uwagi o śmierci i umieraniu w siedemnastowiecznych medytacjach zakonnych (wybrane aspekty)
Comments about death and dying in seventeenth-century monastic meditations (selected aspects)

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is a philological analysis of the descriptions of death and dying in religious meditations. The subject of the research are seventeenth-century meditation manuscripts, authored by nuns from the order of Benedictine sisters which are kept in the archives of the abbey of St. Wojciech in Staniątki. The analysis of lexis refers to such areas as: naming death, traits of death, feelings accompanying thinking about death, preparing for death and invoking authority. It also includes the most important information about the social group of nuns and its language. The conducted analysis shows that the perception of death during religious formation is shaped almost anew, the main reason being the goals set for the nun (mainly the pursuit of holiness). Therefore, the nun should first of all strive for the so-called death of saints and work out some kind of indifference to death.

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