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Some Renaissance/ Early Modern Topoi in the Twenty First Century

Some Renaissance/ Early Modern Topoi in the Twenty First Century

Krystyna Kujawińska Courtney, Grzegorz Zinkiewicz

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This collection of essays is in part the result of an international research project “Revisiting the Renaissance: Poland and the Low Countries in Early Modern Europe – The Culture of Self-Deception”, which was carried out by the British and Commonwealth Department of the University of Lodz in Poland and the Vakgroep Nederlandse Literatur en Alegemene Literatuuretenschap of the University of Ghent in Belgium (2009–2012). The goal of this project was to validate the ongoing debate on the Renaissance by looking at its significance in European civilization through the prism of marginalized cultures. As the essays presented in this volume demonstrate, the scope of our interest has grown over time so that issues such as literature, religion, diplomacy, politics, and arts are seen not only from Polish and Netherland perspectives. This book is a unique publication on the sixteenth-seventeenth European culture, politics and societal studies. Although the book is primarily addressed to scholars and academics who study the Renaissance / Early Modern episteme, it can also attract the attention of many other circles of readers interested in an interdisciplinary discourse devoted to e.g. governance, theology, religion, politics, diplomacy and literature. Since the essays focus on facts, processes, texts and state formations, which do not generally belong to the general discourse, they pose a challenge to the conventional perception of the period under discussion. 

Introduction: Concepts and Strategies 9
Marta Wiszniowska-Majchrzyk - The Dismissal of the Greek Envoys—A Forgotten Trajectory Within the Web of European Renaissance 15
Krystyna Kujawińska Courtney - The Marginalization of Lucrece’s Story in the Early Modern Polish Culture 31
Natalia Brzozowska - Revisiting the Jacobean War of the Sexes: Righteous Anger, Patriarchal Anxiety and the Swetnam Controversy 39
Stanisław Obirek - The Founding Rupture. From Strong to Weak Identity 55
Paul Hulsenboom - “Have the Menacing Alcaean Muses Blown the War Trumpets Again?” Two Versions of Jacobus Wallius’ Ode to Mathias Casimirus Sarbievius 71
Andrzej Wicher - On Going to Hell. The Conception of the Underworld in Przeraźliwe echo trąby ostatecznej (The Shrill Sound of the Ultimate Trumpet) (1670) by Father Klemens Bolesławiusz (1625-1689), and of the Otherworld in Lucifer (1654) by Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679) 97
Mariusz Misztal - Giovanni Della Casa’s Galateo: A Serious Treatise on Manners or “Only a Joke” 115
Katarzyna Kozak - Evolution of the Political System in the Kingdom of Sicily (Sixteenth-Seventeenth Century) 133
Works cited 151
Index of Names 165

  • Title: Some Renaissance/ Early Modern Topoi in the Twenty First Century
  • Author: Krystyna Kujawińska Courtney, Grzegorz Zinkiewicz
  • ISBN: 978-8-3808-8179-2, 9788380881792
  • Date of issue: 2016-08-11
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_08he
  • Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego