Renaissance Culture in Poland : : The Rise of Humanism, 1470-1543 / / Harold B. Segel.
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, bu...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019] ©1989 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
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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