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Catching the Reality

On “Flores sermonum” by Mikołaj of Wilkowiecko

Summary/Abstract: The article takes up the issue of reflecting the historical realia in the collection “Flores sermonum” (1579) by Mikołaj of Wilkowiecko. Source analysis proves that the descriptions, viewed by to date researchers as commentaries to social reality, were taken from the texts composed oftentimes a few centuries earlier. The individual sermons evolved in effect of intermingling excerpts from many sermons in a concise and apparently uniform manner. The metaphors of the sermon’s flowers, of the preacher as a bee, and sermons as fisherman’s fishing net confirm that Mikołaj of Wilkowiecko’s obvious purpose is conversion of sinners and calling them from worldliness to paradise. It is for that reason that historical references are for the writer of minor importance, though he considers them while selecting the sources. Recognition of how Mikołaj of Wilkowiecko in his sermons reflects the realia of his times calls for considering the complex process of their composing and further detailed source research.

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