Original scientific paper

AN EXAMPLE OF CROATIAN DEVOTIONAL LITERATURE. A LITTLE PRAYER FROM POSEDARJE

Vjekoslava Jurdana ; Sveučilište Jurja Dobrile u Puli, Pula, Hrvatska
Anita Borzić ; Sveučilište Jurja Dobrile u Puli, Pula, Hrvatska

Abstract

The article studies the importance of the oral poetical tradition for the identity of the Croatian people. In this frame an oral devotional poem is analyzed, known as the ‘little prayer from Posedarje’.
It was never written down or analyzed up till now, so the aim of this article is to incorporate this litter prayer from the oral non-written culture in the recorded fund of the Croatian oral devotional literature. Many priests are meritorious for the development and the preservation of this kind of literature, which was the expression of faith in the hardness of everyday life throughout tumultuous history.
Furthermore, the Croatian devotional literature, in this case a prayer with its variants, shows how the Christian spirit united the different and historically disjointed Croatian regions.

Keywords

Croatian oral devotional literature; little prayer; Posedarje; variants

Hrčak ID:

116608

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/116608

Publication date:

31.1.2014.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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