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Neulateinische Epik zum Dreißigjährigen Krieg, oder: Wer ist der Feind?

  • Florian Schaffenrath
Published/Copyright: December 6, 2018
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Abstract

In contrast to the literary production in certain vernacular languages like French or German, the period of the Thirty Years’ War was a very productive period for Neo-Latin epic poetry. Two examples discussed in this article elucidate the different purposes of these poems: With his Turcias (Paris 1625) Francois Le Clerc Du Tremblay tried to unite the European Christian rulers and to convince them of a common and united war against the Turks. On the other hand, the Jesuit Jacques d’Amiens published in Douai in 1648 his Bellum Germanicum, the first (and only) part of an epic poem that supports the Catholic part in the Thirty Years’ War. A comparison of the depiction of the enemies in particular in these two poems makes the differences visible.

Online erschienen: 2018-12-06
Erschienen im Druck: 2018-12-01

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