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The Silver Library of Duke Albrecht of Prussia and his wife Anna Maria
The Silver Library ( Silber Bibliothek) of Albrecht, Duke of Prussia, and his wife Anna Maria is an absolutely unique collection of volumes bound in richly decorated precious metal. It was founded between the end of the 1540s and the beginning of the 1560s as a manifestation of the splendor of the ducal court and a deep reverence for the Word of God and Lutheran thought. Originally it consisted of twenty items mainly created in goldsmith workshops in Königsberg, Nuremberg and probably Münden. This monograph gives a historical overview of the Silver Library against the background of the ducal couple’s lives as well as the culture of the 16th-century Prussia. It also presents an analysis of the bindings as examples of the Renaissance and Mannerist art of goldsmithing.
Church, State and Dynasty in Renaissance Poland
This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the career of Fryderyk Jagiellon (1468-1503) arguably the most powerful churchman in medieval or early modern Central Europe. Royal prince, bishop of Kraków, Polish primate, cardinal, regent and brother to the rulers of Hungary, Poland, Bohemia and Lithuania, Fryderyk was a leading dynastic politician, diplomat, ecclesiastic and cultural patron, and a pivotal figure in three Polish royal governments. Whereas Polish historians have traditionally cast Fryderyk as a miscreant and national embarrassment, this study argues that he is in fact a figure of fundamental importance for our understanding of church and monarchy in the Renaissance, w...
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Tajemnicze początki Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika (Wilno i Lwów w Toruniu)
Kiedy przyjechali z Wilna pierwsi profesorowie UMK? Kto ufundował insygnia rektorskie w 1948 roku? Który budynek jako pierwszy zajął Uniwersytet i co z nim zrobił? Dlaczego jedna z ulic w centrum Torunia nosi nazwę „Uniwersytecka”? Skąd pochodzą najcenniejsze książki w Bibliotece Uniwersyteckiej? Gdzie mieszkał student Zbigniew Herbert? Co kryje portret rektora Ludwika Kolankowskiego w Muzeum Uniwersyteckim? Kim była Julia Zan? Jakie były związki Czesława Miłosza z toruńską uczelnią?... Książka będąca opowieścią o tajemniczych i dumnych początkach Uniwersytetu lat 1945–1949 przynosi odpowiedzi na te i wiele innych pytań. Zbiór prawie 20 artykułów, w częś...
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