Military Spendings, Alms, the Splendour of Birth: Topoi and Arguments of Praise in Jakub Sobieski’s Funeral Speeches vs His Contemporary Preaching Tradition
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RIS BIB ENDNOTEKoszty, jałmużny, splendor urodzenia. Toposy i argumenty pochwały w mowach pogrzebowych Jakuba Sobieskiego na tle współczesnych realizacji kaznodziejskich
Publication date: 2022
Terminus, 2022, Volume 24, issue 1 (62) 2022, pp. 25 - 54
https://doi.org/10.4467/20843844TE.22.003.15232Authors
Koszty, jałmużny, splendor urodzenia. Toposy i argumenty pochwały w mowach pogrzebowych Jakuba Sobieskiego na tle współczesnych realizacji kaznodziejskich
Military Spendings, Alms, the Splendour of Birth: Topoi and Arguments of Praise in Jakub Sobieski’s Funeral Speeches vs His Contemporary Preaching Tradition
The article deals with three arguments selected from a nobleman’s funeral praise of the 1st half of the 17th century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: bearing the military cost in defence of the homeland, endowing the building of churches, supporting monasteries and charitable institutions, and being well-born (praise e genere). The arguments are drawn from Jakub Sobieski’s (one of the best and the most famous Polish noble orators of his time) speeches delivered during funeral ceremonies of seven noblemen and noblewomen and sixteen funeral sermons dedicated to these decedents. Both sermons and noblemen’s funeral speeches (typical of old-Polish culture, yet different from the humanistic orations known and popular in the rest of Renaissance Europe) may seem to belong to the same genre of public orations, consequently, many scholars do not differentiate between them. In fact, their purpose, composition, and amplification of many topoi are very dissimilar.
Being closely related to the Old Polish role model of a nobleman, the three arguments of praise could be expected to be widely applied and amplified in any genre of funeral speech, as they glorified the deceased in the eyes of noblemen. However, in Sobieski’s orations these arguments are either omitted or mentioned only marginally, while in sermons they are developed extensively.
This paper offers a preliminary study of this problem, presenting a comparison of amplifying the three arguments of praise in two different genres of funeral orations delivered in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Information: Terminus, 2022, Volume 24, issue 1 (62) 2022, pp. 25 - 54
Article type: Original article
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Koszty, jałmużny, splendor urodzenia. Toposy i argumenty pochwały w mowach pogrzebowych Jakuba Sobieskiego na tle współczesnych realizacji kaznodziejskich
Military Spendings, Alms, the Splendour of Birth: Topoi and Arguments of Praise in Jakub Sobieski’s Funeral Speeches vs His Contemporary Preaching Tradition
The Institute of Literary Research at Polish Academy of Sciences, Nowy Świat 72, Warsaw, Poland
Published at: 2022
Article status: Open
Licence: CC BY-NC-ND
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