Czeski Frant i polski Frąc. O inspiracjach „Frantowymi prawami” w literaturze dawnej Rzeczypospolitej
The Czech Frant and the Polish Frąc. “Frantova Práva” (“The Statutes of Franta”) as an Inspiration in the Literature of the Old Polish Republic

Summary/Abstract: The paper aims both to reinterpret the research theses formulated in the 1950s referring to the impact of the Old-Czech Frantova práva (The Statutes of Franta) on Old-Polish authors, and to present, based on the analysis of the survived Old-Polish literary accounts, the extent to which The Statutes of Franta inspired the native men of letters. Bearing in mind that the old makers of popular literature preferred the form of literary parody, Teresa Banaś-Korniak proves that they referred to The Statutes of Franta in various ways, depending on the cultural circumstances and expectations of the Polish receiver. Not only did they faithfully reproduce the content and the sense of the Czech piece (Polish translation), but also developed and freely adopted the original plot and motives; nevertheless, Polish utilitarian and literary genres largely used the parody as their basis, while references to the Czech work were limited to borrowing motives and threads. The only text that can be labelled a parody of The Statutes of Franta is an anonymous List wolny i przywilej frantowskiego cechu (Free Letter and the Right of Franta’s Guild).

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