Anti-Turkish Polish prose of Joannykij Galyatovskij

Abstract

The article presents an anti-Turkish work by Joannykij Galyatovskij “Alkoran” in the system of Polish polemical prose of the writer where anti-Catholic, anti-Juwish and anti-Turkish motives are being discussed in-parallel. Structure of this work, being organised according to the apologetic principles of literary epoch, gets special attention. We also mark out the peculiarities of anti-Turkish polemics of the end of the 17th century in Polish literature.

Keywords

• polemics
• anti-Turkish literature
• apology
• opponent
• Orthodox Church