Naslov
Fear in 16th Century Croatian Religious Literature

Autori
Šimić, Krešimir

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u zbornicima skupova, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), znanstveni

Izvornik
From Culture of Fear to Society of Trust : proceedings / Juhant, Janez ; Žalec, Bojan - Münster : LIT Verlag, 2013, 123-131

ISBN
978-3-643-90414-0

Skup
From Culture of Fear to Society of Trust

Mjesto i datum
Celje, Slovenija; Ljubljana, Slovenija, 08.-11.11.2.012

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Pozvano predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Renaissance; Croatian religious poetry; images of fear; Mihail Bakhtin; theology of fear.

Sažetak
The Russian literary theoretician Mikhail Bakhtin thinks that a carnivalisation of literary culture took place in the Renaissance. Moreover, Bakhtin thinks that the carnival element swept away many obstacles and adopted a particular world view. However, he notes, carnival laughter is deeply ambivalent. Generically, it is linked to the oldest forms of ritual laughter, but all forms of ritual laughter are linked to death and rebirth. Using the methodological principles of New Historicism compiled in the journal Annales d'historie économique et sociale, Jean Delumeau has established that it was precisely during the Renaissance, usually characterised by freedom of conscience, that the emotions of fear and guilt were dominant. In his work La Peur en Occident (XIV–XVIII siècles), a reconstruction of emotional life in the West between the 14th and 18th centuries, Delumeau established that, at a particular moment in history, a pessisimistic view of the world, the outbreak of the plague, the Turkish incursions, religious schism and the Hundred Years War collided, leading to new, exacerbated fears regarding the end of the world, the coming of the Antichrist, and the activities of witches, wizards and heretics. He analyses figures of fear, mostly eschatological, in 16th century Croatian religious poetry. However, other reasons for the significant appearance of eschatological figures of fear, along with those identified by Delumeau, may be attributed to theology, particularly the theology of fear of Thomas Aquinas (Summa theologica I-II, 41-45).

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

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