Imiona zakonne karmelitów bosych (od XVII do XX w.)

Abstract

The main purpose of the monograph Imiona zakonne karmelitów bosych (od XVII do XX wieku) was to analyze the collected religious names of the Discalced Carmelites from all Polish monasteries from the seventeenth to the twentieth century (full onimic material for each of the periods). The work has an interdisciplinary nature by design, which is caused by the specificity of the social group in which the discussed anthroponyms functioned and function nowadays. The presented monograph consists of an Introduction which includes: the most important information about the purpose and assumptions of the work; methodological basis of the description and the description of used sources. The subsequent section of the Introduction clarifies the term religious name, followed by presentation of the present state of research on Polish religious names. Further part of the dissertation presents the most important information about the Carmelite Order – its historical outline, including the reform carried out in the 16th century, significance (both in the Catholic Church and on the Polish lands) and also the crucial points of Carmelite spirituality, which are closely connected with analyzed material. Following section of Chapter two describes the practice of changing name in the order. The next chapter of the dissertation begins the analytical part of the work on the collected religious names of the Discalced Carmelites. It discusses the origin and motivation of the analyzed anthroponyms. In the four chapter, a diachronic analysis was carried out (each subsection is a discussion of names from a given age, from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, including the first, second and third names). Subsequent section of chapter four describes the dependence of the religious names of the Discalced Carmelites from their Christian names. Next section of this chapter presents the results of research on the predicates of religious names of the Discalced Carmelites. The fifth chapter compares the scope of religoius names of the Discalced Carmelites from male and female monasteries. The Summary includes the most important conclusions regarding the religious names of the Discalced Carmelites and the most important features of religious names. The monograph is closed with a dictionary of discussed religoius names of the Discalced Carmelites, a bibliography and an appendix presenting a list of full religious names given in the congregation of the Discalced Carmelites from the seventeenth to the twentieth century.