Filozoficzne konteksty średniowiecznej poezji

Abstract

The medieval culture inspired by the Christian thought was directed to create a doctrinal synthesis established by the Church. In all great works of this epoch the same aspiration to the universal and objective wisdom as the highest value is admired. The intellectual culture of the Medieval Times brought the humanity the compendium of the theological thought “summa”, which is present not only in the contemporary philosophy and theology. To feel the pulse of this beautiful and great culture we should get acquainted with the matchless Summa by Aquinas, St Thomas, the “poetic summa” by Dante and enchanted in a stone “plastic summa” of the Gothic cathedral. On all these levels we can explore the world permeated by Providence and observed by inbred and supernatural wisdom of the medieval man. The medieval poetry represented religious literature with the main stress on eschatological, moral and ascetic issues. World view basis of the medieval literature was being created by Christianity meant not only as theological-philosophical system possessing different doctrinal nuances but first of all as a belief linking creators and recipients of the literature, which implicates the Christian vision of the world.