Renaissance Culture in Poland : : The Rise of Humanism, 1470-1543 / / Harold B. Segel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Segel, Harold B.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1989
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)

Renaissance Culture in Poland is the first book-length account of Renaissance humanism and the Latin literary tradition in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Poland. Although Copernicus is the best-known representative of Polish humanism, he was no isolated phenomenon, Harold B. Segel demonstrates, but rather one member of a lively community of intellectuals who helped to bring Poland into the mainstream of contemporary European culture and to lay the foundations for the Polish High Renaissance of the second half of the sixteenth century.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Guide to Polish Pronunciation -- Introduction -- 1. Gregory of Sanok, the Freethinking Archbishop -- 2. From San Gimignano to Cracow: The Extraordinary Career of Filippo Buonaccorsi, Alias Callimachus -- 3. The Humanist a-Touring: Celtis among the Sarmatians -- 4. Period of Transition -- 5. Copernicus: The Scientist as Humanist -- 6. Pope Leo X, the Bison, and Renaissance Cultural Politics -- 7. At the Courts of Kings and Emperors: Dantiscus as Diplomat and Poet -- 8. The Hell-Raiser Who Became Primate of Poland -- 9. Clemens Ianicius, the Fragile Blossom of Polish Latinity -- 10. Epilogue: Jan Kochanowski and the Twilight of Polish Humanism -- Notes -- Index