Česká literaturačasopis pro literární vědu

Datum publikování: 4.2023

Autor: Činčurová, Bára

Abstrakt: The article aims to shed more light on how the late medieval Czech dialogue Rozmlouvání člověka se Smrtí engages with eschatology. Firstly, it focuses on death; mainly that despite the dreadful descriptions of dying the poem maintains that death is a righteous, necessary pathway to an adequate afterlife. Attention is also paid to Trost’s remark that the personified Death embodies both, the first and the second death. Next, the paper focuses on the soul and the body in the dialogue, i. e. their painful separation and their reunion at the end of times. Lastly, the study touches upon afterlife, expanding Trost’s claim about death to concepts of personal and universal eschatology. While striving to capture the overlap of particular and final judgment or hell and second death, it stresses the importance of Death’s rejection of purgatory.

Rozsah stran: s. 177-194

DOI: 10.51305/cl.2023.02.02

Status recenzování: recenzovaný článek

Licence: CC BY-NC-ND