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

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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Gespeichert in:
1. Verfasser:
Segel, Harold B.
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Ithaca, NY Cornell University Press [2019]
Zusammenfassung:
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
Umfang:
1 online resource (304 p.)
ISBN:
9781501737800
DOI:
10.7591/9781501737800
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