INCARCERATIO, LIBERATIO ET PEREGRINATIO IN THE WRITINGS OF SLOVAK RELIGIOUS EMIGRANTS IN THE 17TH CENTURY

The issues addressed in the title of the work have been exemplified with Jan Simonides’s travelogue Incarceratio, liberatio et peregrination. The text is an exemplar of the dramatic experience of Slovak Protestants in 1674-1675, following by their liberation and forced emigration lasting till 1682. Unfortunately, the original text by Simionides from 1676 has been not maintained. It was edited down by Josef Minarik from eighteenth-century copies as Imprisonment, liberation and peregrination of Jan Simonides and his comrade Tobias Masnik. Referring to the epoch documents, letters, notes and authentic surnames and taking into account the chronicle requirements – strict dating and narrative time division according to the sequence of events, Simonides gives a recipient a sense of authenticity. He is not blind to his own confession but he is interested in dissimilarities. Although he most often uses a collective subject, paradoxically, he gives a recipient his individual experience