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In 2012 in the Library of Major Seminary in Włocławek a volume was discovered with two Wittenberg’s protestant prints (1557 and 1560) in a characteristic binding made from yellow leather with Mikołaj Koryciński’s superexlibris on it (1548‑1615). On the inner side of the upper cover there is a Latin inscription from 1560, made probably by Philip Melanchton or another, anonymous Philip (maybe student...
Republic under Sigismund III Vasa The purpose of the article is to present an attitude of Jerzy and Krzysztof Zbaraski towards the denominational policy and changes in the political system under King Sigismund III Vasa – an issue that has been marginalised in the literature on the subject which focusses mainly on political factography. The article is based on two contemporary pamphlets published anonymously,...
The paper investigates the ways of commemoration of John Sigismund Zapolya (Hung. Szapolyai, 1540‑71), the elected King of Hungary and Prince of Transylvania, in the Transylvanian literature written or published in the first decade after the ruler’s death. Taken into account are texts of various genres and partly also for different readers: the Latin humanist epic of a Transylvanian Saxon author Christian...
The article is an attempt to organize and describe the information of strange and unusual events and situations, which Stefan Ranatowicz placed in his Latin-Polish chronicle entitled Casimiriae civitatis, urbi Cracoviensi confrontatae, origo. The author was a 17th-century historiographer and chronicler, born and brought up in Kazimierz near Krakow. The corpus of his work remains in the manuscript...
This article is an attempt to describe the model of upbringing of the girls in 16th century polish society. Basing on a critical review of a juridical, religious, and guidance literature, the author tries to present parenting methods, the archetype of a daughter, her position in a family and the attitude to her sexuality. Women’s independence was regarded as a danger to social order, therefore upbringing...
Krzysztof Moniwid Dorohostajski is known as the author of the work Hippica to jest o koniach księgi (Hippica or the books about horses). In a manuscript preserved in the Ossolineum collections in Wrocław (ms. II 185) one can find Dorohostajski’s poems in Latin, Greek and Polish, inscribed by him personally. The longest piece is Lament Rzeczypospolitej Matki po rozjachaniu z nierządnej elekcyjej anno...
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