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The Uses of Humanism
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 was culturally thriving and intellectually open in the period between Copernicus and Galileo. Humanism was a dominant cluster of shared intellectual practices and cultural values that brought a number of concrete benefits both to the social-climber intellectual and to the social elite. Two exemplary case studies illustrate this thesis in substantive detail, and highlight the ambivalences and diff...
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At the Gate of Christendom
Modern life in increasingly heterogeneous societies has directed attention to patterns of interaction, often using a framework of persecution and tolerance. This study of the economic, social, legal and religious position of three minorities (Jews, Muslims and pagan Turkic nomads) argues that different degrees of exclusion and integration characterized medieval non-Christian status in the medieval Christian kingdom of Hungary between 1000 and 1300. A complex explanation of non-Christian status emerges from the analysis of their economic, social, legal and religious positions and roles. Existence on the frontier with the nomadic world led to the formulation of a frontier ideology, and to anxiety about Hungary's detachment from Christendom, which affected policies towards non-Christians. The study also succeeds in integrating central European history with the study of the medieval world, while challenging such current concepts in medieval studies as frontier societies, persecution and tolerance, ethnicity and 'the other'.
Friars on the Frontier
Focusing on the Dominican Order's activities in southeastern Poland from the canonisation of the Polish Dominican St Hyacinth (1594) to the outbreak of Bogdan Chmielnicki's Cossack revolt (1648-54) this book reveals the renovation and popularity of the pre-existing Mendicant culture of piety in the period following the Council of Trent (1545-64). In so doing, it questions both western and Polish scholarship regarding the role of the Society of Jesus, and the changes within Catholicism associated with it across Europe in the early modern period. By grounding the rivalry between Dominicans and Jesuits in patronage, politics, preaching, and the practices of piety, the study provides a holistic ...
Rzeczpospolita Obojga Narodów
Od początku XVI wieku Polska wchodzi w okres swojego największego rozkwitu i razem z Litwą – jako Rzeczpospolita Obojga Narodów – staje się mocarstwem w tej części Europy. Potencjał militarny i inicjatywy w gospodarce stanowią o sile państwa, z którym liczą się największe potęgi kontynentu z Habsburgami na czele. Kraj tętni życiem, powstają nowe miasta, wielu cudzoziemców osiedla się w Polsce, kwitnie kultura artystyczna, a Polacy są obecni na zachodnioeuropejskich uniwersytetach. Pojawia się też rodzimy styl w kulturze i obyczajach – sarmatyzm – będący oryginalną kompilacją tradycji Wschodu i Zachodu. Niestety, po wielu wyniszczających wojnach dochodzi na...
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Orbis Christianus
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