Wiersze na śmierć króla w późnośredniowiecznej Polsce
Odes to the Death of the King in the Late Medieval Poland

Author(s): Marcin Starzyński
Subject(s): Middle Ages, 6th to 12th Centuries, 13th to 14th Centuries, 15th Century, 16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: epicedium; funerary lyric; medieval Poland; Kazimierz Jagiellończyk; Wawrzyniec Korwin
Summary/Abstract: The author discusses the 15th-century epicedium, composed by a Silesian humanist thinker, Wawrzyniec Korwin (before 1440-1527) to commemorate the death of king Kazimierz Jagiellończyk (1447-1492). This work was known in literature, but it was not analysed in depth in the context of other works of this kind, which were written in connection with deaths of Polish monarchs. The author uses the unknown until now manuscript from the collection of Niedersächsiche Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen (the oldest of the recognised). The manuscript contains two other works by Korwin, the description of the funeral ceremony of Kazimierz Jagiellończyk and a verse epitaph. Together they from the largest group of texts written at the time of Polish monarch’s death in the late Middle Ages. Although their topic is still medieval, the phraseology is undoubtedly renaissance. The appendix contains the edition of epicedium.

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