Stanisław of Skarbimierz

Stanisław of Skarbimierz (1360–1431; Latinised as Stanislaus de Scarbimiria) - first rector, from renewed in 1400, University of Krakow. He was the author of Sermones sapientiales (Polish: Kazania sapiencjalne), comprising 113 sermons.

Stanisław was born in Skarbimierz, polish village near Opole. His sermons were the foundation of Polish political doctrine that culminated in the system of Nobles' Democracy ("Golden Liberty") in Poland and, from 1569, in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.[1] Many ideas central to this doctrine may be found in subsequent works by Wawrzyniec Grzymała Goślicki (1530–1607) that appear to have influenced the 17th-century English Commonwealth as well as the Founding Fathers of the United States.

Stanisław of Skarbimierz, along with Paweł Włodkowic, framed the Polish position, at the Council of Constance, pioneering ideas of modern human rights and international law. Stanisław's sermons "About Just War" (De bellis justis) and "About robbery" (De rapina) gave fundaments to medieval theory of just war. The sermons justified position of Kingdom of Poland toward a war with Teutonic Knights. Stanisław died in 1431 in Kraków.[2]

Stanisław's Sermons were influenced by earlier works of Augustine of Hippo and Wincenty Kadłubek.

Footnotes
  1. Krzysztof Ożóg: Stanisław ze Skarbimierza - uczony w służbie Królestwa Polskiego „Miłujcie światło mądrości, którzy jesteście przełożonymi narodów” (Księga Mądrości 6, 23) (pol.) [acc. 2017-05-09].
  2. R. M. Zawadzki: Stanisław ze Skarbimierza, [in:] Polski słownik biograficzny, vol. 42, Warszawa-Kraków 2003, p. 76-80 - http://www.ipsb.nina.gov.pl/a/biografia/stanislaw-ze-skarbimierza

References
  • (in Polish) L. Ehrlich: Polski wykład prawa wojny XV wieku. Kazanie Stanisława ze Skarbimierza De bellis iustis, ed. Wydawnictwo Prawnicze, Warszawa 1955;
  • (in Polish) Olszewski Mikołaj, Świat zabobonów w średniowieczu. Studium kazania O zabobonach Stanisława ze Skarbimierza, ed. WYDAWNICTWO NAUKOWE Semper, Warszawa 2002, ISBN 83-89100-12-6
  • (in Polish) R. M. Zawadzki: Stanisław ze Skarbimierza, [in:] Polski słownik biograficzny, vol. 42, Warszawa-Kraków 2003, p. 76-80 - http://www.ipsb.nina.gov.pl/a/biografia/stanislaw-ze-skarbimierza

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