„Nie potrzebuje zdrowy lekarstwa, rzecz dobra zaś – naprawy”. Pamflet Herasyma Smotryckiego Kalendarz rzymski nowy (1587)
“A Healthy Man Needs No Cure, Nor a Good Thing Repair”: The New Roman Calendar (1587) by Herasym Smotrytsky
Author(s): Tomasz HodanaSubject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Language and Literature Studies, History of Church(es), Studies of Literature, Theology and Religion, Polish Literature, Eastern Orthodoxy
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL & Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Keywords: Herasym Smotrytsky; polemical literature; Gregorian reform of the calendar; satirical pamphlet; Orthodox Church in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Summary/Abstract: This paper discusses the satirical pamphlet Kalendar rymskyj novy [The New Roman Calendar], part of Herasym Smotrytsky’s book better known as Kliuch tsarstva nebesnoho [The Key to the Heavenly Kingdom, 1587], which is the first printed example of Orthodox polemical literature in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. In his pamphlet, Smotrytsky shows the negative social consequences of the calendar reform by Pope Gregory XIII (1582) and categorically rejects the new calendar. Instead of scientific argumentation, he uses satire with irony, sarcasm, exaggeration and anecdotes. He also writes in a language close to the vernacular. All of this made his work understandable and convincing for Orthodox Ruthenians (Ukrainians and Belarusians) and accessible to the broad masses.
Journal: Roczniki Humanistyczne
- Issue Year: 70/2022
- Issue No: 7
- Page Range: 29-43
- Page Count: 15
- Language: Polish