Doświadczyński przed Trybunałem
Doświadczyński before the Tribunal

Ignacy Krasicki’s Writings in the Light of Legal History

Summary/Abstract: Legal problems included into literary writings rarely become an issue of analysis. The judiciary subject is often voiced in Ignacy Krasicki’s output, and some of them are recurrent in many of his pieces. The novel “Mikołaja Doświadczyńskiego przypadki (Adventures of Nicolaus Doświadczyński)” offers a description of the functioning of the Crown Tribunal, the highest judiciary body in the Republic. Time distance and legal practice details included in the piece hinder the proper understanding of this part of the novel. The literary picture is not only uniquely realistic and conforms many law historians’ observations, but also delivers pieces of information which allow to indentify many raised problems, places, time and figures. A legal-historical analysis gives a new reading of that part of Krasicki’s creativity.

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