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 as 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 -- including 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 Antiquity and encompassing both the Renaissance and its immediate aftermath.
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Section I NEW CONTEXTS FOR CLASSICAL PAGAN CULTURE |
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The Attitudes of Medieval Arabic Intellectuals towards Pythagorean Philosophy: different approaches and ways of influence |
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Transcribing `Elegiac Comedies': transformation of Greek and Latin theatrical traditions in twelfth- and thirteenth-century poetry |
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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 |
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Section II NEW CONTEXTS FOR THE CHRISTIAN PAST |
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Old Martyrs, New Martyrs and the Coming of Islam: writing hagiography after the conquests |
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Slavonic Kontakaria and Their Byzantine Counterparts: adapting a liturgical tradition |
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Old Traditions and New Models: travelling monks in the late Byzantine hagiography from the Balkans |
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The Authority of the Church Fathers in Sixteenth-Century Polish Sermons: Jakub Wujek, Grzegorz of Zarnowiec and their postils |
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Section III INTELLECTUAL INTERMEDIARIES BETWEEN CULTURES |
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Cultural Contacts between the Superpowers of Late Antiquity: the Syriac School of Nisibis and the transmission of Greek educational experience to the Persian Empire |
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An Italian Intermediary in the Transmission of the Ancient Classical Traditions to Renaissance Poland: Leonardo Bruni and the Humanism in Cracow |
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Jan Latosz (1539--1608) and His Natural Philosophy: reception of Arabic science in early modern Poland |
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You Are Christians without a light from Heaven. A Pluriconfessional Encounter: an image of Georgians according to the seventeenth-century Theatine missionaries' writings |
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Section IV INTERCULTURAL CONTACTS AND DOMESTIC AGENDAS |
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Stories from Afar and a Local Star: the Eastern imagery in the Dialogues by Sulpicius Severus and his view on the Church in Gaul |
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`When the Turk Roamed around Belgrade': the Ottomans' advent to the Hungarian borderlands in the pre-Mohacs Flugschriften |
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Adam Izdebski, PhD, is a National Science Centre Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of History of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. His research focuses on envrionmental, economic and cultural history of Byzantium and Late Antiquity. Among his recent publications is A Rural Economy in Transition. Asia Minor from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages (JJP Supplement 18, Warsaw 2013).
Damian Jasinski is a PhD student in Classics at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun. His research work is focused mainly on leadership and authority in religious communities of the late antique Western Mediterranean, Latin hagiography and early Christian monasticism.
