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The Concept of Heroism on the Military Frontier – The Example of Razgovor ugodni naroda slovinskoga

Filip Šimunjak


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Abstract

In approaching Razgovor ugodni naroda slovinskog, a collection of poems penned by the friar Andrija Kačić Miošić, as an example of written oral poems (a concept formulated by the American oral literature scholar John Miles Foley), this paper studies the idea of heroism in the Welt der Granzfestungen, i.e. on the frontier between Christian forces (the Habsburg Monarchy and the Republic of Venice) and the Ottoman Empire in the early modern period. Assuming that historical figures featured in oral poems serve as exempla, the author attempts to lay bare the complex idea of heroism as it existed in the frontier value system. This is done by applying the concept of humanitas heroica.

Keywords

heroism; Andrija Kačić Miošić; Military Frontier; humanitas heroica; Early Modern period

Hrčak ID:

277572

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/277572

Publication date:

31.12.2021.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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