Judita i druge žene u hrvatskim renesansnim i baroknim književnim djelima
Judith and other women in Croatian renaissance and baroque literary works

Summary/Abstract: In the paper the wide spectrum of female figures of the most famous Croatian renaissance and baroque authors is analysed. The consideration of the figures is carried out with regards to the determinant literary-historical period, the manners of expression and the literary ideas or purposes of the figures within the writer’s conception of the world. Renaissance authors idealised the female beauty, whilst baroque authors showed it in a dichotomous form: as a source of sinfulness (a consequence of moralistic didacticism), as well as a source of new and bold erotic imaginations or of spiritual and ethical virtues. The formation of five different kinds of women was noticed with regards to their stronger realistic, symbolic, allegorical or abstract nature: Petrarchist ladies,female warriors, good women, female whores and female enchantresses. Studied in particular is the position of Judith in the considered corpus. This work has always attracted the attention of literary theorists, as well as linguists because with it Croatian mediaeval literacy quickly transformed into authorial and national literature.

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