Krytyka sarmackiego ucztowania oparta na fragmentach
The criticism of the Sarmatian feasting based on the fragments of literary and documentary texts of the authors of old

Summary/Abstract: The paper covers the problem of the representation of the aspects of the past culture in literature. The chosen element is the problem of the luxuriance of the feasts in baroque. The paper points out to the various origins of the love of splendid feasts in the Sarmatian époque (such as foreign influences or aesthetic models), the looks of the tables and the course of the feasts and the far-reaching effects of feasting. It presents among others the path of magnates and the higher aristocracy to the financial ruin, which had been constituted by the too costly stacked tables, the love of decorativeness and ceremony. This financially and morally ruining inclination of the nobility had been critically commented by then-living authors. The faults, which had then come to light, had not been sparred, such as: drunkenness, recklessness or short-sightedness. The essay contains also the pieces of texts which bear witness to the un-realization of the seriousness of the problem by the feasting themselves, and perfectly portraying the sensual and culinary aspect of the culture of our ancestors.

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