Agony jako przejaw agresji werbalnej kobiet

The article focuses on women’s agones known from medieval litera ture and court records. The author proves that they were a form of verbal aggression. The insults used during them were not ritualized: they were intended to attack the opponent and damage his reputation. The outcome of the agone was often determined outside the verbal sphere. Referring to the pattern proposed by Ward Parks, agones can be considered close to heroic flyting

Theology · Central European Literary Studies · Language and Culture · Philosophy · Psychology