Sielskie bytowanie szlachty a stanowe powinności rycerskie w świetle staropolskiej poezji ziemiańskiej
The Idyllic Existence of the Nobility and the Estate Duties of Knights in the Light of Old Polish Landowning Poetry

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the attitudes of the authors of the so-called landowning poetry towards the military obligations of the noble estate, which have rarely been studied recently. The birth of this trend in the second half of the sixteenth century meant both an approval for the agricultural lifestyle and the appearance in Old Polish literature of a model competing with the knightly one. The author of the study, following in chronological order the statements of the most important sixteenthand seventeenth-century writers of this genre (Jan Kochanowski, Andrzej Zbylitowski, Józef Domaniewski, Stanisław Słupski, Władysław Stanisław Jeżowski, Zbigniew Morsztyn, Marcin Borzymowski, Wacław Potocki, Wespazjan Kochowski), intends to indicate how the eulogists of the rural noble arcadia referred to the military ethos. Until now, this issue has been treated in the literature only perfunctory.

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