(in Polish) Early modern cultural patterns (courtier/maid, senator, landlord/landlady) and their literary sources

The aim of the course will be to discuss the selected texts of medieval and early modern Polish literature in terms of the personal models described in them. Particular interest will be given to the chronicles of Gall Anonim, Wincenty Kadłubek and Jan Długosz (due to the image of the ruler); the dialogue Dworzanin polski by Łukasz Górnicki (due to the image of the courtier); the treatise De optimo senatore by Wawrzyniec Goślicki (due to the image of the senator); and poems and epigrams by Jan Kochanowski and Żywot człowieka poczciwego by Mikołaj Rej (due to the image of the host). Attention will also be paid to typically female role models: a good wife (in the Kochanowskich’s and Rej’s works); and a mother (in the treatises and catechisms of Jan Seklucjan, Erazm Gliczner, and Maciej Wirzbięta, among others).

A participant:

1) knows the major patterns of medieval and early modern culture; 2) is able to identify medieval and early modern texts in which these models appeared; 3) understands the differences between the patterns resulting from gender and the social roles assigned to them.