„Zuzanna” Jana Kochanowskiego wobec konwencji wernakularnych pieśni hagiograficznych
Jan Kochanowski’s “Zuzanna” (“Susanna”) against the Vernacular Conventions of Hagiographic Songs

Summary/Abstract: The article takes up Tadeusz Sinko’s statement forgotten by scholars that Jan Kochanowski in his poem “Zuzanna (Susanna)” makes a reference to a convention of medieval vernacular songs about saints. The thesis is proven in the context of the piece’s poetics adjustment to cultural experience of its addressee, Elżbieta Radziwiłłowa de domo Szydłowiecka, as well as from the perspective of the women’s influence on the development of vernacular literary creativity. The paper also examines the category of virtue contained in the poem and having religious connotations as well as the intentionally introduced by Kochanowski numerous references to oral conventions. Apart from old Polish hagiographic songs, for comparative reasons the article uses examples of old Czech poems.

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