The Polish renaissance in its European context
By: edited by Samuel Fiszman ; foreword by Czesław Miłosz.
Contributors: Fiszman, Samuel.; Kochanowski, Jan, 1530-1584.; Indiana University, Bloomington. Polish Studies Center.; Indiana University, Bloomington. Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures.; Indiana University, Bloomington.; Uniwersytet Warszawski.
Publisher: Indiana University Press; Indiana Univ Pr
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 478
ISBN-13: 9780253346278
Subjects: Kochanowski, Jan, 1530-1584 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses.; Renaissance -- Poland -- Congresses.; Poland -- History -- 16th century -- Congresses.; Poland -- Relations -- Europe -- Congresses.; Europe -- Relations -- Poland -- Congresses.
Description: xxviii, 478 p., 1 leaf of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Indiana University Polish Studies Center and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures."
Results of a conference commemorating the birth and death of Jan Kochanowski held at Indiana University, May 25-29, 1982; sponsored by Indiana University and Warsaw University.
"A Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America book."
Table of contents: title: Table of Contents … i; title: List of Illustrations (1-60) … iv; title: Preface	 … viii; title: Foreword (Czesław Miłosz) … xi; title: Introduction … xiii; title: ◦; title: PART I. HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL ASPECTS OF THE RENAISSANCE IN POLAND; title: ◦; title: 1. Aleksander Gieysztor; title: Polish Historians and the Need for History in 15th and 16th Century Poland … 3; title: ◦; title: 2. Antoni Mączak; title: Polish Society and Power System in the Renaissance … 17; title: ◦; title: 3. Andrzej Walicki; title: The Political Heritage of the 16th Century and its Influence on the Nation-building Ideologies of the Polish Enlightenment and Romanticism … 34; title: ◦; title: PART II. RELIGION AND LAW IN RENAISSANCE POLAND; title: ◦; title: 4. George H. Williams; title: Strains in the Christology of the Emerging Polish Brethren … 61; title: ◦; title: 5. Jerzy Kłoczowski; title: Some Remarks on the Social and Religious History of 16th Century Poland … 96; title: ◦; title: 6. Janusz Tazbir; title: The Polish Reformation as an Intellectual Movement … 111; title: ◦; title: 7. Wenceslas J. Wagner; title: Justice for All: Polish Democracy in the Renaissance Period in Historical Perspective … 127; title: ◦; title: PART III. SCIENCE AND LEARNING IN RENAISSANCE POLAND; title: ◦; title: 8. Andrzej Wróblewski; title: The Cracovian Background of Nicholas Copernicus … 147; title: ◦; title: 9. Edward Rosen; title: What Copernicus Owed to the West and What We Owe to Copernicus … 161; title: ◦; title: 10. Waldemar Voisé; title: Polish Renaissance Political Theory: Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski … 174; title: ◦; title: 11. Paul W. Knoll; title: The University Context of Kochanowski’s Era: Humanism and the Academic Culture of the Early Renaissance in Poland … 189; title: ◦; title: PART IV. RENAISSANCE POLAND AND OTHER CULTURES; title: ◦; title: 12. Tadeusz Ulewicz; title: Polish Humanism and its Italian Sources: Beginnings and Historical Development … 215; title: ◦; title: 13. Samuel Fiszman; title: The Significance of Polish Renaissance and Baroque for Eastern Slavic Nations … 236; title: ◦; title: 14. Teresa Bałuk-Ulewiczowa; title: The Senator of Wawrzyniec Goślicki and the Elisabethan Counsellor … 258; title: ◦; title: PART V. ART AND ARCHITECTURE IN RENAISSANCE POLAND; title: ◦; title: 15. Jan Białostocki; title: Renaissance Sculpture in Poland and its European Context: Some Selected Problems … 281; title: ◦; title: 16. Adam Miłobędzki; title: Architecture under the Last Jagiellons in its Political and Social Context … 291; title: ◦; title: PART VI. JAN KOCHANOWSKI; title: ◦; title: 17. Wiktor Weintraub; title: Kochanowski’s Fame … 303; title: ◦; title: 18. Janusz Pelc; title: Jan Kochanowski, Creator of Polish National Literature and the Renaissance in Poland … 321; title: ◦; title: 19. Maria Renata Mayenowa; title: The Linguistic Form of Jan Kochanowski’s Poetry … 343; title: ◦; title: 20. Mieczysław Giergielewicz; title: Jan Kochanowski’s Versification … 357; title: ◦; title: 21. Jerzy Axer; title: Classical Tradition in Kochanowski’s Work: Problems of Reception … 374; title: ◦; title: 22. Jerzy R. Krzyżanowski; title: Everything is But a Trifle … 383; title: ◦; title: 23. Tymoteusz Karpowicz; title: To Whom Does the Poet Sing? … 389; title: ◦; title: 24. Paulina Buchwald-Pelcowa; title: Jan Kochanowski: The Poet’s 16th Century Editions in the Context of Contemporary Polish and European Printing … 396; title: ◦; title: 25. Erna Hilfstein; title: Jan Kochanowski through the Eyes of His Earliest Biographer … 413; title: ◦; title: 26. Ante Kadić; title: Jan Kochanowski and Croatian Literature … 421; title: ◦; title: 27. Paulina Lewin; title: Jan Kochanowski: The Model Poet in Eastern Slavic Lectures on the Poetics of the 17th and 18th Centuries … 429; title: ◦; title: Contributors … 445; title: Index … 460