Dziecko i dzieciństwo w hagiografii staropolskiej
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2009
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Wydział Teologiczny UAM
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The Child and Childhood in Old Polish Hagiography
Abstract
The article is an overview of studies on the theme of childhood and the child as a specific
literary hero of old Polish hagiography. Hagiographers tended to render the childhood of the saints
within a schematic framework employing an abundant repertoire of rhetoric devices. But
hagiography also gives fragmentary descriptions of customs connected with the relations between
parents and children as well as with parental care and the bringing up progeny. For hagiographers
childhood was above all a foretoken of the saint’s future virtues and works. The child itself,
however, was not a suitable paragon to follow so hagiography rarely treated it as a hero in its own
right.
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hagiography, old Polish family, childhood
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Poznańskie Studia Teologiczne, T. 23, 2009, s. 213-231