Inter-cultural Transmission of Intellectual Traditions in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period. A comparative perspective

Book

The book which is the result of the project has been published by the Jagiellonian University Press in the series Byzantina et Slavica Cracoviensia.

A. Izdebski, D. Jasiński (eds.) Cultures in motion. Studies in the medieval and early modern periods. Krakow 2014: Jagiellonian University Press. ISBN: 978-83-233-3631-0

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgements  7
Introduction  9

Section I
NEW CONTEXTS FOR CLASSICAL PAGAN CULTURE

Anna Izdebska (Warsaw), The Attitudes of Medieval Arabic Intellectuals towards Pythagorean Philosophy: different approaches and ways of infl uence  25
Klementyna Aura Glińska (Paris), Transcribing ‘Elegiac Comedies’: transformation of Greek and Latin theatrical traditions in twelfth- and thirteenth-century poetry  45
Elżbieta Chrulska (Toruń), Between Distance and Identifi cation: reception of the ancient tradition in the Protestant religious poetry, the case of Wrocław, Gdańsk and Toruń in the context of Northern Humanism  71

Section II
NEW CONTEXTS FOR THE CHRISTIAN PAST
Christian Sahner (Princeton), Old Martyrs, New Martyrs and the Coming of Islam: writing hagiography after the conquests  89
Olga Grinchenko (Oxford), Slavonic Kontakaria and Their Byzantine Counterparts: adapting a liturgical tradition  113
Lilly Stammler (Oxford-Sofi a), Old Traditions and New Models: travelling monks in the late Byzantine hagiography from the Balkans  131
Barbara Grondkowska (Lublin), The Authority of the Church Fathers in Sixteenth-Century Polish Sermons: Jakub Wujek, Grzegorz of Żarnowiec and their postils  155

Section III
INTELLECTUAL INTERMEDIARIES BETWEEN CULTURES
Adam Izdebski (Cracow), Cultural Contacts between the Superpowers of Late Antiquity: the Syriac School of Nisibis and the transmission of Greek educational experience to the Persian Empire  185
Anna Horeczy (Warsaw), An Italian Intermediary in the Transmission of the Ancient Classical Traditions to Renaissance Poland: Leonardo Bruni and the Humanism in Cracow  205
Mykhaylo Yakubovych (Ostroh), Jan Latosz (1539–1608) and His Natural Philosophy: reception of Arabic science in early modern Poland  235
Piotr Chmiel (Warsaw), You Are Christians without a light from Heaven. A Pluriconfessional Encounter: an image of Georgians according to the seventeenth-century Theatine missionaries’ writings  255

Section IV
INTERCULTURAL CONTACTS AND DOMESTIC AGENDAS
Damian Jasiński (Toruń), Stories from Afar and a Local Star: the Eastern imagery in the Dialogues by Sulpicius Severus and his view on the Church in Gaul  275
Karolina Mroziewicz (Warsaw), ‛When the Turk Roamed around Belgrade’: the Ottomans’ advent to the Hungarian borderlands in the pre-Mohács Flugschriften  289