Published: 2023-01-06

“When I Hit the Bushes With a Stick, I Will Scare the Hare Away”

Łukasz Libowski
Studia Teologiczno-Historyczne Śląska Opolskiego
Section: Articles
DOI https://doi.org/10.25167/sth.4748

A More Careful Reading of Indecent Song Written by Nicholas of Koźle

Abstract

This article is an overview. It is devoted to a piece known in the literature under the title Cantilena inhonesta, which was recorded by Nicholas of Koźle (Mikołaj z Koźla) at the beginning of the 15th century during his travels around Silesia, Bohemia and Moravia. The first part of the study
discusses the question of the poem’s genesis, dating and the circumstances of its recording. The second part of the article traces the successive “versions” of the text of Sprośna śpiewka, starting from the manuscript “version”, through the transliterated and transcribed “version”, to the “version” translated into contemporary language. In the third part of this study, the indecent canticle is commented on. The literary genre it represents, its subject matter, the means of expression used in it and its structure are discussed in turn; then the description of the human body, male and female, and the vision of love contained in it, as well as the attributes accompanying its characters and the principle of the expression of feelings through behaviour, which the reader encounters while reading it.

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Libowski, Łukasz. (2023). “When I Hit the Bushes With a Stick, I Will Scare the Hare Away”: A More Careful Reading of Indecent Song Written by Nicholas of Koźle. Studia Teologiczno-Historyczne Śląska Opolskiego, 42(2), 155–175. https://doi.org/10.25167/sth.4748

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