„Jak uderzę kijem w krzaki, wypłoszę zajączka” Lektura uważniejsza Piosnki nieprzystojnej zapisanej przez Mikołaja z Koźla
“When I Hit the Bushes With a Stick, I Will Scare the Hare Away”. A More Careful Reading of Indecent Song Written by Nicholas of Koźle

Summary/Abstract: This article is an overview. It is devoted to a piece known in the literature under the title Cantilena inhon- esta, which was recorded by Nicholas of Koźle (Mikołaj z Koźla) at the beginning of the 15th century during his travels around Silesia, Bohemia and Moravia. The first part of the study discusses the question of the poem’s genesis, dating and the circumstances of its recording. The second part of the article traces the successive “versions” of the text of Sprośna śpiew- ka, starting from the manuscript “version”, through the transliterated and transcribed “ver- sion”, to the “version” translated into contemporary language. In the third part of this study, the indecent canticle is commented on. The literary genre it represents, its subject matter, the means of expression used in it and its structure are discussed in turn; then the description of the human body, male and female, and the vision of love contained in it, as well as the at- tributes accompanying its characters and the principle of the expression of feelings through behaviour, which the reader encounters while reading it.

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