Markovičov biblický obraz ženy

The paper is dedicated to the literary historical legacy of the slavist Rudo Brtáň (1907– 1998). It is inspired by Brtáň´s research on Slovak-language Low-land literature, inparticular the chapter Literature and Culture of Slovak Protestants in Sarvaš (1722– 1918), which comes from the yet unpublished manuscript titled Slovak-languageLow-land Literature until 1918. The paper focuses on the work of Michal Markovič Sr.(1707 – 1762/4), who worked in Sarvaš (present-day Hungary) as a Slovak evangelicalpriest. The analysis deals with Markovič´s collection of poems called Duchovní zrcadloženského pohlaví z Písem svatých představené/The Spiritual Mirror of the Female Sex presentedin the Holy Scriptures, printed probably in Bratislava in 1783. The method of thetext analysis is supported by the theoretical assumptions of the Czech literary historianEduard Petrů, who saw the basis for the interpretation of a literary work in revealingthe interpretation core. The goal is to identify the author´s intention encoded in thegenesis of Markovič´s collection, and to decode the reader´s interpretation of thattime. Markovič wrote the collection in order to stimulate moral attitudes of the wholeevangelical community, not only the women´s. He composed it with the intention tosupport the Bible self-study motivating the readers with the inserted biblical coordinatesas well as narratives reduced to several poetic lines. The contribution of the analysiscan be seen in classifying the genre of the collection as a collection of epigram-likepoems. These findings confirm the influence of ancient and renaissance literatureon Slovak literary production written in the local vernacular in the mid-18th century.