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More than sixty friends and colleagues pay tribute to the
distinguised professor Jnos M. Bak's 70th birthday.
A Humanist on the Frontier explores the remarkable life of
Sebastian Ambrosius, a sixteenth-century Lutheran minister and
intellectual from Kesmark (now Kezmarok) in present-day Slovakia,
formerly on the borderland of the Kingdom of Hungary. Through an
examination of Ambrosius' publications and correspondence, this
book throws new light on the dynamics of urban communities in Upper
Hungary, communication within the humanist Republic of Letters in
both Central European and wider European networks, and
ecclesiastical controversies. Adopting methods of microhistory and
cultural history, it also reconstructs Ambrosius' life by
positioning him in various contexts that trace his relationship to,
and interpretations of, themes of power, tradition, vocation,
communication and identity. This book is essential reading for
scholars and students of early modern European history, as well as
those interested in microhistory, cultural history, and the
Republic of Letters.
This collection of essays is about sanctity, demonstrating the
multiplicity of aspects this condition had in Western medieval
Christianity. The studies concentrate on the complex set of the
socio-cultural phenomena of the cult of saints, in a variety of
regions from Egypt to Poland, with a focus on Italy and Central
Europe. The subjects of the contributions range in time from Pope
Damasus in the fourth until St. Christopher in the eighteenth
century. The diversity of approaches adopted by the
contributors-from literary analysis and historical anthropology to
archaeology and art history-represents the open and
multidisciplinary historical research that characterizes the
medievalist community at the Central European University. Top
erudition and scholarly precision meets the mystical world of
Catholic saints. Some of the essays contain numerous black and
white illustrations.
The studies in this volume concentrate on a complex set of
socio-cultural phenomena, the cult of saints, in a variety of
regions from Egypt to Poland, with a focus on Italy and Central
Europe. The subjects of the contributions range in time from the
fourth until the eighteenth century. The diversity of approaches
adopted by the contributors-from literary analysis and historical
anthropology to archaeology and art history-represents that open
and multidisciplinary historical research that characterizes the
work of Gabor Klaniczay to whom these essays are dedicated.
The essays in this book provide interesting contributions to the
ongoing debate concerning the representation of differing cultures,
i.e., the "image of the Other" in the early modern period . They
deal with images, projections, and perceptions, based on various
experiences of coexistence. Although the individual contributions
contain sources and references of iconography, this is not just
another volume of art history or visual studies. As examples of
practices in diverse historical contexts, the book includes a
variety of textual material, such as literary productions,
rhetorical exercises, dramatic applications, chronicles, epistles,
and diary-like historical accounts that express ethnographic
sensitivities. Thus, supported by a thorough research apparatus,
these studies propose a new cultural history of the early modern
coexistence of various communities, as identified in current
research by young scholars. Another novel feature of the volume is
the deliberate digression of traditional scholars' focus and the
investigation of rarely examined regions and practices.This
approach allows the contributors to spotlight their special areas
of research and to share a fresh new look at "the Renaissance. "
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