Description

• Title:
  The Forgery of Polish Traditions of Yore. On Two Legendary Medieval Customs Mentioned in Satyr albo Dziki mąż by Jan Kochanowski
• Creator:
  Grześkowiak, Radosław
• Description:
  In his Satyr, or The Wild Man Jan Kochanowski refers to two old-time customs: first that, during the mass, at the reading of the Gospel, old Poles were to half draw their swords in token of their readiness to defend the Christian faith (vv. 185–200), and the second that infamists were punished upon their honour in such a way that when they sat at table with other people, the host cut the tablecloth to indicate that he did not want to share a meal with them (vv. 231–236). The article analyses numerous references to those customs in the old-Polish literature (unanimously attesting to the lack of these rituals in the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries), to indicate that both were literary legends.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2018 Odrodzenie i Reformacja w Polsce
• Date:
  2018.03.25
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Odrodzenie i Reformacja w Polsce; Tom 61 (2017): Special Issue; 215-244;
  2450-8349;
  0029-8514
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla PAN w Warszawie
• Relation: https://apcz.umk.pl/OR/article/view/OiRwP.2017.SI.10/14425
• Subject:
  Jan Kochanowski;
  old custom;
  knightly culture;
  historical novel
• Identifier: https://apcz.umk.pl/OR/article/view/OiRwP.2017.SI.10
• Data provider:
  Akademicka Platforma Czasopism
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  seek permission
• Type:
  text