The Neo-Latin Didactic Epic and Descriptive Poetry in the Czech Lands before 1620

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Neo-Latin Didactic Epic and Descriptive Poetry in the Czech Lands before 1620

Original language description

On the basis of an examination of the rich Bohemical (i.e., Bohemia-related) material, the study discusses the Neo-Latin didactic and descriptive poetry, which was widely cultivated in the Early Modern Czech lands until the Battle of White Mountain (1620). After it, there was an exodus of non-Catholic writers and a decline in most poetic genres. In the case of descriptive poetry, the study relies on domestic genre studies for topographies and celebrations of inventions, but other genres are treated comprehensively for the first time. Didactic epic was mainly cultivated in the Czech Lands by physicians, its most important representative being Vavřinec Špán. Teachers and clergymen also wrote minor didactic compositions. A frequent theme was the plague, which could be conceived from a medical or theological-moralistic point of view. Versified reflections on general questions of education, art and human life were usually treated as New Year’s wishes (strenae). A special kind of didactic texts were university theses and professors’ speeches in verse. Descriptive poetry, which mixed descriptive and celebratory elements in varying proportions, had as its theme depictions of cities, buildings, roads, festivals, etc. The addressees of descriptive compositions were often rulers and the nobility, but mostly town councils. The presented outline of the types of poems based on the Bohemical material is not intended as a codification, but rather as an invitation to discuss the forms of Neo-Latin poetry in the Czech Lands.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60206 - Specific literatures

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA22-00477S" target="_blank" >GA22-00477S: Early modern Bohemia litteraria. Genre differentiation of Neo-Latin literature in the Czech Lands</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Listy filologické

ISSN

0024-4457

e-ISSN

2570-9410

Volume of the periodical

146

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3/4

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

27

Pages from-to

333-359

UT code for WoS article

001246199500004

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85195779260