The uses of humanism Johannes Sambucus (1531-1584), Andreas Dudith (1533-1589), and the republic of letters in East Central Europe /

The uses of humanism Johannes Sambucus (1531-1584), Andreas Dudith (1533-1589), and the republic of letters in East Central Europe /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Almási, Gábor
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
Series:Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 185.
Subjects:
Zsámboki, János, > 1531-1584.
Dudith, András, > 1533-1589.
Habsburg, House of.
Humanism > Europe, Central > History > 16th century.
Humanism > Social aspects > Europe, Central > History > 16th century.
Renaissance > Europe, Central.
Humanists > Hungary > Biography.
Scholars > Hungary > Biography.
Europe, Central > Intellectual life > 16th century.
Austria > Court and courtiers > Biography.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: on the uses of humanism
  • Humanist learning and networks in East Central Europe
  • Aspects of East Central European humanist learning
  • Humanist networks and the ethos of the republic of letters
  • The uses of humanism at the imperial court
  • The case of Johannes Sambucus
  • An ornament to the imperial court?
  • The multiple identities of the humanist : "vates, medicus bonus, historicusque"
  • The case of Andreas Dudith
  • The curious career of a heterodox humanist
  • The making of the humanist : self-fashioning through letters and treatises
  • Epilogue: Sambucus and Dudith encounter confessionalisation.

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