Cultures in motion : studies in the medieval and early modern periods / edited by by Adam Izdebski and Damian Jasiński.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Izdebski, Adam, editor.

Jasiński, Damian, editor.

Series:

Byzantina et slavica cracoviensia ; 8.

Byzantina et slavica cracoviensia, 1230-4603 ; VIII

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural relations.

History.

Byzantine Empire--Civilization.

Byzantine Empire.

Civilization.

Europe, Central--History--To 1500.

Europe, Central.

Cultural relations--History--To 1500.

Central Europe.

Physical Description:

308 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cracow : Jagiellonian University Press, 2014.

Summary:

This volume offers a collection of thirteen studies on the subject of intercultural contact and exchange in the medieval and early modern periods. The aim of the authors was to approach this phenomenon's broadly as possible, and the resulting volume is, therefore, a fusion of different approaches to a variety of historical sources and texts. Geographical areas that are often studied separately - induding the Middle East, the Caucasus, the Latin West and Central Europe (especially Poland, Germany and Hungary) - are here presented together in order to allow for cross-period and cross-regional comparisons The chronological scope is also unusually broad, beginning with Late Annuity and encompassing both the Renaissance and its immediate aftermath. Book jacket.

Contents:

Section I New Contexts for Classical Pagan Culture

The Attitudes of Medieval Arabic Intellectuals towards Pythagorean Philosophy: different approaches and ways of influence / Anna Izdebska (Warsaw) Izdebska, Anna, (Warsaw) 25

Transcribing 'Elegiac Comedies': transformation of Greek and Latin theatrical traditions in twelfth- and thirteenth-century poetry / Klementyna Aura Glinska (Paris) Glinska, Klementyna Aura, (Paris) 45

Between Distance and Identification: reception of the ancient tradition in the Protestant religious poetry, the case of Wroclaw, Gdansk and Torun in the context of Northern Humanism / Elzbieta Chruhka (Torun) Chruhka, Elzbieta, (Torun) 71

Section II New Contexts for the Christian Past

Old Martyrs, New Martyrs and the Coming of Islam: writing hagiography after the conquests / Christian Sahner (Princeton) Sahner, Christian, (Princeton) 89

Slavonic Kontakaria and Their Byzantine Counterparts: adapting a liturgical tradition / Olga Orinchenko (Oxford) Orinchenko, Olga, (Oxford) 113

Old Traditions and New Models: travelling monks in the late Byzantine hagiography from the Balkans / Lilly Stammler (Oxford-Sofia) Stammler, Lilly, (Oxford-Sofia) 131

The Authority of the Church Fathers in Sixteenth-Century Polish Sermons: Jakub Wujek, Grzegorz of Zarnowiec and their postils / Barbara Grondkowska (Lublin) Grondkowska, Barbara, (Lublin) 155

Section III Intellectual Intermediaries Between Cultures

Cultural Contacts between the Superpowers of Late Antiquity: the Syriac School of Nisibis and the transmission of Greek educational experience to the Persian Empire / Adam Izdebski (Cracow) Izdebski, Adam, (Cracow) 185

An Italian Intermediary in the Transmission of the Ancient Classical Traditions to Renaissance Poland: Leonardo Bruni and the Humanism in Cracow / Anna Horeczy (Warsaw) Horeczy, Anna, (Warsaw) 205

Jan Latosz (1539-1608) and His Natural Philosophy: reception of Arabic science in early modern Poland / Mykhaylo Yakubovych (Ostroh) Yakubovych, Mykhaylo, (Ostroh) 235

You Are Christians without alight from Heaven. A Pluriconfessional Encounter: an image of Georgians according to the seventeenth-century Theatine missionaries' writings / Piotr Chmiel (Warsaw) Chmiel, Piotr, (Warsaw) 255

Section IV Intercultural Contacts and Domestic Agendas

Stories from Afar and a Local Star: the Eastern imagery in the Dialogues by Sulpicius Severus and his view on the Church in Gaul / Damian Jasinski (Torun) Jasinski, Damian, (Torun) 275

'When the Turk Roamed around Belgrade': the Ottomans' advent to the Hungarian borderlands in the pre-Mohács Flugschriften / Karolina Mroziewicz (Warsaw) Mroziewicz, Karolina, (Warsaw) 289.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

8323336318

9788323336310

OCLC:

874731057

Publisher Number:

99960670672