Milovaný i zavrhovaný: Veliký život Pána a Spasitele našeho Krista Ježíše Martina z Kochemu
| Title in English | Beloved and Rejected: the Great Life of Our Lord and Saviour Christ Jesus Martin of Cochem |
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Requested lectures |
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| Citation | HANZELKOVÁ, Marie. Milovaný i zavrhovaný: Veliký život Pána a Spasitele našeho Krista Ježíše Martina z Kochemu (Beloved and Rejected: the Great Life of Our Lord and Saviour Christ Jesus Martin of Cochem). In Čtení ze starých knih. 2024. |
| Description | The book The Great Life by the German Capuchin Martin of Cochem was probably known to all rural inhabitants of the 18th and 19th centuries. In wealthier families, the book was inherited for generations, while the less well-off could at least borrow it or get acquainted with it through the readers who took it around the cottages from winter to spring, or they could watch some scenes in folk religious plays. On the other hand, scholars and academically-minded theologians saw The Big Life as a ridiculous or even dangerous work for ordinary people. In the collections of the FF MU library there is a first edition from 1698, which belonged to the Stibinger family, probably a well-to-do family of soapmakers from Brandýs nad Labem. The importance that the family attached to the book is evidenced by the birth and death records on the book's covers, the inscribed holy pictures, the hand-drawn map of Jerusalem, as well as the inscribed calendar leaves, which probably determined the reading for each day, and the inscribed dry flowers, perhaps an expression of respect and love for St. Anne. In my readings from the ancient prints, I will be recounting the "great miracles" that befell the holy family as they fled to Egypt, focusing on two stories: the ambush by robbers and the destruction of the pagan idols. I will examine these narratives in the context of early modern Orientalist discourses, common especially in travelogues, but also as a typical manifestation of contemporary religious-educational production. I will also reflect on intermedial transitions (chapbbok, folk drama) and related textual transformations. |
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