The uses of humanism : Johannes Sambucus (1531-1584), Andreas Dudith (1533-1589), and the republic of letters in East Central Europe / / by Gábor Almási.

• Superior document: Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 185
• Author: Almási, Gábor.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 185.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (408 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This book is a novel attempt to understand humanism as a socially meaningful cultural idiom in Late Renaissance East Central Europe. Through an exploration of geographical regions that are relatively little known to an English reading public, it argues that late sixteenth-century East Central Europe...

Table of Contents

• Introduction: on the uses of humanism
• Humanist learning and networks in East Central Europe
• Aspects of East Central European humanist learning
• Humanist networks and the ethos of the republic of letters
• The uses of humanism at the imperial court
• The case of Johannes Sambucus
• An ornament to the imperial court?
• The multiple identities of the humanist : "vates, medicus bonus, historicusque"
• The case of Andreas Dudith
• The curious career of a heterodox humanist
• The making of the humanist : self-fashioning through letters and treatises
• Epilogue: Sambucus and Dudith encounter confessionalisation.