Affiliation:
1. Universität Leiden , Niederlande Netherlands
Abstract
Summary
This article is about Simeon Polotskii’s voluminous lament of 1669 about the death of Mariia Il’inichna, the wife of tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich. The lament is analysed as a specimen of baroque court poetry and as a poetic cycle. Special attention is paid to its religious content. What are the lament’s principal ideas about death and the afterlife? How does it treat the central motif of contemptus mundi, the Christian contempt of life on earth? And how does it relate to the religious tenets of the Orthodox Church?
Subject
Literature and Literary Theory,Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics,Cultural Studies
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