Boccaccio 2025: narracje, społeczeństwo i kultura prawna

Boccaccio 2025: narracje, społeczeństwo i kultura prawna / Boccaccio 2025: Narratives, Society and Legal Culture
W dniach 22–23 maja 2025 roku zapraszamy na cykl wydarzeń naukowo-dydaktycznych poświęconych Dekameronowi Giovanniego Boccaccia oraz kulturze społecznej i prawnej XIV-wiecznych Włoch. W programie znalazły się warsztaty dla studentów oraz wykład gościnny z udziałem badacza z Lancaster University.
In fourteenth-century central Italy, a new literary form emerged: the short prose story known as the novella. This genre reached its peak with Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron in the mid-1300s. But the influence of the novella was not confined to literature. From the 1320s onward, its narrative style also appeared in practical documents like court records. Known for their realistic settings, focus on human emotions such as love, friendship, and wit, and their complex ethical reflections, novelle developed during a time of major change—not only cultural and literary, but also institutional, legal, and political. Italian cities were losing their independence as power became increasingly concentrated in the hands of oligarchies, whether under princely rule (signorie) or in republican systems. These shifts profoundly affected the legal system, which played a crucial role in regulating life in the divided and turbulent cities of late medieval Italy. In this talk, we will explore how novelle—both in their traditional literary form and in judicial narratives with similar features—became powerful means for writers to reflect on and even critique the changes unfolding around them.
📍 Miejsce: sala 125 (oraz sala 1256), Wydział Historii UW
Program:
22 maja 2025 (czwartek), godz. 16.45–18.30
Beffa z syndykatu? Kultura prawna w „Dekameronie”
Warsztaty dla studentów
Prowadzenie: dr Anna Pomierny-Wąsińska (WH UW)
23 maja 2025 (piątek), godz. 13.15–14.45
„Dekameron” a włoska literatura kupiecka
Warsztaty dla studentów
Prowadzenie: dr Piotr Białecki (WN UW)
📩 Kontakt w sprawie wydarzenia:
dr Anna Pomierny-Wąsińska — a.pomierny-wasinska@uw.edu.pl