Czech Lands, Part 1

Lucie Storchová

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9783110646429
• eBook ISBN: 9783110646658
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: European Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

The Companion to Central and Eastern European Humanism: The Czech Lands is the first reference work on humanists and their literary activities in this region to appear in English. It provides biographical and bibliographical data about humanist literary life between c. 1480 and 1630, in two volumes, organised alphabetically by authors' names. This first volume includes three introductory chapters together with more than 130 biographical entries covering the letters A-L and a complete overview of the most recent research on humanism in Central Europe. The interdisciplinary research team behind this Companion paid particular attention to local approaches to the classical tradition, to humanistic multilingualism and to Bohemian authors' participation in European scholarly networks. The Companion is a highly relevant resource for all academics who are interested in humanism and the history of early modern literature in Central Europe.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Humanism in the Czech Lands in the First Half of the 16th Century Utraquists, Catholics and Non-Conformist Religious Communities
• Humanist Literature in the Czech Lands (from the 1550s until the Late 1580s)
• The Literature of Late Humanism (from the 1590s until the Early 1620s)
• Companion: A–L
• Index of Names
• Index of Places