Beyond Devotion

Religious and Literary Communities in the 16th and 17th Century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Texts and Contexts

Łukasz Cybulski, Kristina Rutkovska, ?ukasz Cybulski, Kristina Rutkovska, Herman J. Selderhuis

• Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9783525552957
• eBook ISBN: 9783647552958
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Theology

This volume is one of scarce studies of religious literature of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth conducted by scholars from both Poland and Lithuania. What makes this endeavour important is mainly the will to overcome the frontiers and strains of the modern world that encourage exploring separateness instead of the realities of deep mutual interdependency. ?ukasz Cybulski and Kristina Rutkovska analyse secular and religious writings of secular authors as well as those belonging to the clergy and religious orders. Their main interest lies in exploring the different genres of early modern Polish and Lithuanian sermons and novels, and in tracing this heritage to its social and literary context through the works' material presence in manuscript form and in print. Other papers in this volume give insights into the origins of vernacular translations of the Holy Scriptures and the controversies surrounding them, as well as into the written testimonies of religious devotion and conversions. The aim has been not only to confront different kinds of texts and experiences, but to situate this heritage in its social and confessional context.

Table of contents

• Title page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• Miroslawa Hanusiewicz-Lavallee (The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin) | Denominations and Poetics. Confessional Profiles of Polish Renaissance and Baroque Religious Poetry
• Radoslaw Rusnak (University of Warsaw) | “The Lord of Grief and Comfort is but One”: Thoughts on the Biblical Language in Jan Kochanowski’s Poetry
• Kristina Rutkovska (Vilnius University, The Institute for the Languages and Cultures of the Baltic) | On Creating the Images of Biblical Characters in Sermons from the Turn of the 17th Century. Cultural Contexts Versus the Authors’ Personalities
• Agnieszka Czechowicz (The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin) | Biblical Figural Exegesis As the Source of Imagery in the Religious Poetry of Waclaw Potocki
• Łukasz Cybulski (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw) | “The pleasure in sameness and difference”. Editing the Works of Tomasz Nargielewicz OP (†1700)
• Gina Kavaliūnaitė (Vilnius University) | On the Genesis of the 1701 Lithuanian New Testament
• Wieslaw Pawlak (The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin) | The Form and Content of Polish Catholic Works on Preaching in the Post-Tridentine Period (1565–1700)
• Marta Wojtkowska-Maksymik (University of Warsaw) | Can Devotion be Taught? Elementaria institutio Latini sermonis et pietatis Christianae (1575) by Maciej Wirzbięta
• Dainora Pociūtė (Vilnius University) | Converting Physicians: The Apostasy of Socinian Gaspar Wilkowski and the Confessional Boundaries of Medicalization in 16th Century Poland–Lithuania
• Kristina Rutkovska (Vilnius University, The Institute for the Languages and Cultures of the Baltic) | The Beginnings of Postillography in Lithuania. Konstantinas Sirvydas’ Postil as One of the Main Achievements of the Times
• Paweł Stępień (University of Warsaw) | Samuel Dambrowski’s Postil and Its Connection with the Evangelical and Catholic Tradition of Passion Piety
• Notes on the Authors
• Index of Names