Renaissance Culture in Poland: The Rise of Humanism, 1470-1543.

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - Renaissance Culture in Poland is the first book-length account of Renaissance humanism and the Latin literary tradition in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Poland. Copernicus, the best-known representative of Polish humanism, 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. -- Despite political and religious unrest, the Polish Commonwealth was a stable multiethnic state at the height of its power and prestige in the sixteenth century. The University of Cracow prided itself on a distinguished faculty and attracted students and scholars from as far away as England and Italy; Italian Renaissance artists, architects, and scholars were offered royal patronage in Poland. Segel chronicles the development of humanism in Poland from the second half of the fifteenth century through the death in 1584 of Jan Kochanowski, who wrote many of his works in Latin and was also the first great Polish vernacular poet. Segel examines the careers of several of the most prominent native cultural figures in early Renaissance Poland - Copernicus among them - as well as those of foreigners who played an important role in the development of humanism in Poland - particularly the Italian Filippo Buonaccorsi (better known by his pseudonym. Callimachus) and the German Conrad Celtis. Segel includes generous quotations from major works both in the original Latin and in English translation. -- Renaissance Culture in Poland makes a convincing case for Poland�s Western cultural orientation and illuminates a little-known aspect of the spread of Renaissance humanism throughout Europe. Slavists, specialists and students in Renaissance Studies and Medieval Studies, and others with an interest in neo-Latin literature will want to read it. ISBN 9780801422867