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Beyond Devotion
This volume is one of scarce studies of religious literature of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth conducted by scholars from both Poland and Lithuania. What makes this endeavour important is mainly the will to overcome the frontiers and strains of the modern world that encourage exploring separateness instead of the realities of deep mutual interdependency. Łukasz Cybulski and Kristina Rutkovska analyse secular and religious writings of secular authors as well as those belonging to the clergy and religious orders. Their main interest lies in exploring the different genres of early modern Polish and Lithuanian sermons and novels, and in tracing this heritage to its social and literary context through the works' material presence in manuscript form and in print. Other papers in this volume give insights into the origins of vernacular translations of the Holy Scriptures and the controversies surrounding them, as well as into the written testimonies of religious devotion and conversions. The aim has been not only to confront different kinds of texts and experiences, but to situate this heritage in its social and confessional context.
Rethinking Modern Polish Identities
A critical examination of the category of "Polishness" - that is, the formation, redefinition, and performance of various kinds of Polish identities - from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. Inspired by new research in the humanities and social sciences as well as recent scholarship on national identities, this volume offers a rigorous examination of the idea of Polishness. Offering a diversity of case studies and methodological-theoretical approaches, it demonstrates a profound connection between national and transnational processes and places the Polish case in a broader context. This broader context stretches from a larger Eastern European one, a usual frame of comparison, to the ...
In Readers' Hands
This volume explores the production, transmission, and reading practices of vernacular Bibles in early modern Europe. This varied collection of essays provides historical, book historical, literary, theological, and art historical perspectives to the movements of manuscript and printed Bibles. The contributions concern Bibles in many different languages and from across the European continent, from Ireland to Portugal. Rather than perceiving Scripture and the material carriers of Scripture as static things, this volume demonstrates how Bibles constantly acquired new meanings and functions as they moved through time and space, and were touched by the hands of makers, readers, and users.
Hidden Multilingualism in 19th-Century European Literature
The disparagement of multilingualism is a European development of the 18th and 19th centuries in which one national language and national literature were advocated, established and institutionalised. Multilingual writers made use of the creative potential of several languages even then. However, they often adapted to an increasingly monolingual book market, which made their individual multilingualism invisible. This is evident in literary historiography which established a monolingual national canon. Researching hidden multilingualism is often difficult: since multilingual texts by multilingual writers were often not published or were published in a monolingual version, sources are scarce. L...
Word of God, words of men
The book presents many aspects of the phenomenon of translation and commentary work of the Bible in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 16th and 17th centuries. It contains studies of eminent scholars as well as of some young adepts, coming mainly from Poland, but also from Lithuania and Czech Republic. The texts present various aspects of the researches conducted on this phenomenon nowadays. As it was an exceptional movement, extremely varied and long-time lasting, it would be difficult to offer its complete synthesis in one volume. Though, the exhaustive presentation of the historical and linguistic contexts allows the reader to understand the phenomenon. Intensified interest in tran...
Mapping Multilingualism in 19th Century European Literatures. Le plurilinguisme dans les littératures européennes du XIXe siècle
This book undertakes an investigation of European literary multilingualism in the 19th century, particularly the period from 1800 to 1880. It covers writers and works from a broad range of linguistic and geographic contexts, going from France to Russia, from Finland to Italy, and beyond. Cet ouvrage se propose d’explorer le plurilinguisme littéraire dans l’Europe du XIXe siècle, notamment durant la période allant de 1800 à 1880. Il traite d’écrivains et d’œuvres littéraires provenant de divers contextes linguistiques et géographiques, de la France à la Russie, de la Finlande à l’Italie et au-delà.
Wokół Krasińskiego
Książka Wokół Krasińskiego to zbiór studiów poświęconych związkom poety z kulturą francuską i zachodnioeuropejską literaturą romantyczną, rozważaniom nad jego stosunkiem do historii oraz nad dramatami i ich dziejami scenicznymi, wreszcie lekturom zbiorów korespondencji. „Zgromadzone w tomie prace prezentują duże zróżnicowanie tematyczne i koncentrują się na różnych wymiarach pisarstwa i biografii Krasińskiego, łączy je jednak intencja wyjaśnienia lub co najmniej postawienia analizowanego tematu w nowym lub zmodyfikowanym świetle. Tom Wokół Krasińskiego rysuje się jako propozycja książki wielotematycznej, lecz umiejętnie »ujarzmionej«. Zadaje ciekawe pytania, wraca do kwestii pozornie rozwiązanych i wytycza im drogi nowych ujęć". Z recenzji dr hab. Elżbiety Nowickiej, prof. UAM
Prace Herkulesa - człowiek wobec wyzwań, prób i przeciwności
Herkules może być uważany za symbol człowieka zmagającego się z trudnościami i przeszkodami, których pokonanie wymaga od niego siły, sprytu, determinacji i odporności. Zmaganie się z różnego rodzaju przeciwnościami (zewnętrznymi i wewnętrznymi) literatura i sztuka uczyniła jednym z najważniejszych tematów, licznie obecnych w kulturze na przestrzeni dziejów. Książka Prace Herkulesa – człowiek wobec wyzwań, prób i przeciwności stanowi próbę zmierzenia się zarówno z mitem Herkulesa i jego obecnością, jak i z zagadnieniem heroizmu - wysiłków człowieka uwieńczonych sukcesem. W skład niniejszego tomu wchodzi kilkadziesiąt rozpraw zamówionych oraz stanowiąc...
In Search of 'the Genuine Word of God'
The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth familiarized itself with Christian Hebraism in the first half of the 16th century. "In Search of 'the Genuine Word of God'" sketches out the process in three chapters. The first one deals with the development of modern Hebrew studies in Western Europe, the second gives an account of the academic and religious level of Hebrew scholarship in the Commonwealth in the 16th century and at the beginning of the 17th century, and the third is devoted to Polish translations of the Hebrew Bible, which were the most significant consequences of the reception of the West-European Christian Hebraism in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in Renaissance. Knowledge of Hebrew...
Annual Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries
The Annual Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries aims at recording articles of scholarly value which relate to the history of the printed book, to the history of arts, crafts, techniques and equipment, and of the economic social and cultural environment, involved in its production, distribution, conservation and description.
