Wilczek Polonia Reformata

Essays on the Polish Reformation(s)
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-3-647-55250-7
Verlag: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, Band Band 036, 145 Seiten

Reihe: Refo500 Academic Studies (R5AS)

In his fascinating new book, Polonia Reformata. Essays on the Polish Reformation(s), Professor Piotr Wilczek of the University of Warsaw discusses selected aspects of Polish early modern religious history and literature, introducing them from a new perspective and emphasizing the great role of Poland’s radical Reformation in European intellectual life. At the same time, the author presents the varieties of religious experience and expression to be found in the Polish-Lituanian Commonwealth, and questions certain myths about Poland‘s Reformation and Counter-Reformation history and culture, which have featured in European historiography at least since the publication in 1685 of Stanislas Lubieniecki’s Historia reformationis Polonicae. The book’s general introduction about Polish “religion on the periphery” is followed by essays on the reception of John Calvin’s works, the role of Socinianism, religious polemics and the major religious poets of the early modern period, including Jan Kochanowski, probably a Lutheran in his youth and an Erasmian Catholic later in life, and Erazm Otwinowski, the finest Polish-language poet in the community of the Polish Brethren (Socinians). In this engaging study, Professor Wilczek also looks at the broader European contexts that played an important role in the development of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation in Central and Eastern Europe. This meticulously researched book will appeal to scholars and general readers interested in early modern religion, culture, literature and history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wilczek, Piotr

Weitere Mitwirkende

Frank, Günter

Mahlmann-Bauer, Barbara

Schilling, Johannes

Wassilowsky, Günther

Westphal, Siegrid

Rasmussen, Tarald

Lamberigts, Mathijs

Gordon, Bruce

Whitford, David M.

Tóth, Zsombor

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Title Page;4
2;Copyright;5
3;Acknowledgements;6
4;Table of Contents;8
5;Body;12
6;1. Introduction;12
7;2. Ideas and Polemics;16
7.1;2.1 Religion on the Periphery – the Polish Case;16
7.1.1;2.1.1 God's Playground or the Heart of Europe?;16
7.1.2;2.1.2 John Paul II and the Fall of Communism;18
7.1.3;2.1.3 The Polish Millennium (1966);19
7.1.4;2.1.4 The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth as the European Periphery;19
7.1.5;2.1.5 The Triumph of the Counter-Reformation on the Periphery of Europe;21
7.1.6;2.1.6 Conclusions: New Challenges on the Way Back to the Heart of Europe;23
7.2;2.2 The Polish Reception of John Calvin's Works in the Context of the History of Christianity in Poland;24
7.2.1;2.2.1 Introduction;24
7.2.2;2.2.2 Calvin's Contacts with Poland – a Bibliographical Survey;25
7.2.3;2.2.3 Calvin's Works Translated and Published in Poland;28
7.2.4;2.2.4 Reception of Calvin's Thought in the Early Modern Period and Academic Publications on Calvin in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries;31
7.2.5;2.2.5 Instead of a Conclusion;36
7.3;2.3 The Myth of the Polish Reformation: Socinianism in Modern Historiography;37
7.3.1;2.3.1 Stanislas Lubieniecki's Historia reformationis Polonicae as a Source of the Myth of the Polish Reformation;37
7.3.2;2.3.2 Polish Reformation in Twentieth-Century Historiography;38
7.3.3;2.3.3 Antitrinitarianism/Socinianism in Polish Historiography – an Evolution of Attitudes;40
7.3.4;2.3.4 Conclusion: No Breakthrough after the Fall of Communism;45
7.4;2.4 The Major Concepts of Antitrinitarian Theology in the 16th Century;46
7.4.1;2.4.1 Introduction;46
7.4.2;2.4.2 The Bible;48
7.4.3;2.4.3 Christology;49
7.4.4;2.4.4 The Holy Trinity;50
7.4.5;2.4.5 Nonadorantism;52
7.4.6;2.4.6 Predestination;53
7.4.7;2.4.7 Baptism;53
7.4.8;2.4.8 Eucharist;54
7.4.9;2.4.9 Church;55
7.4.10;2.4.10 Conclusions;56
7.5;2.5 Raków – the Capital of Socinianism: A Unique Case of European Religious Topography in the Age of the Reformation;56
7.6;2.6 Liber Socinianorum primarius: Introductory Remarks on the Racovian Catechism;61
7.6.1;2.6.1 Introduction;61
7.6.2;2.6.2 Liber Socinianorum primarius;63
7.6.3;2.6.3 Bibliographical Summary;65
7.6.4;2.6.4 The State of Research and Proposals for the Future;69
7.7;2.7 Debates between Jesuits and “Heretics” in Early Modern Polish Literature;72
7.7.1;2.7.1 Polemical Pamphlets of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation;72
7.7.2;2.7.2 Socinians as Principal Adversaries in Catholic Polemics;75
7.7.3;2.7.3 Jesuit Anti-Socinian and Anti-Lutheran Polemics – the Case of Marcin ?aszcz;77
7.7.4;2.7.4 A Jesuit-Socinian Debate about the Authority of the Scripture;85
7.7.5;2.7.5 Conclusion;92
8;3. Between Luther and Socinus: Polish Poets in the Age of the Reformation;94
8.1;3.1 Jan Kochanowski and Polish Confessional Dilemmas in the Mid-16th Century;94
8.1.1;3.1.1 Jan Kochanowski – the Finest Poet of the Polish Renaissance: a Bio-Bibliographical Sketch;94
8.1.2;3.1.2 Jan Kochanowski's Religion: Protestant? Erasmian? Catholic?;98
8.2;3.2 Erazm Otwinowski – a Biblical Poet;104
8.2.1;3.2.1 Erazm Otwinowski – an Adventurous Traveller, Famous Scandalmonger and Modest Poet of the Church: a Bio-Bibliographical Sketch;104
8.2.2;3.2.2 Erazm Otwinowski's Deeds and Histories of Distinguished Women and Parables of Our Lord Jesus Christ as Poetical Transformations of the Bible;108
8.2.3;3.2.3 The Brest Bible and other Polish Translations of the Bible in the Poetical Works of Erazm Otwinowski;114
8.3;3.3 Conversion and Transformation: a Few Remarks on the Lives and Works of Polish Writers of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation;122
8.3.1;3.3.1 Conversions – an Introduction;122
8.3.2;3.3.2 Jan Kochanowski;124
8.3.3;3.3.3 Miko?aj S?p Szarzy?ski and Erazm Otwinowski;125
8.3.4;3.3.4 Kasper Twardowski;126
8.3.5;3.3.5 Wac?aw Potocki;127
8.3.6;3.3.6 Kasper Wilkowski;128
8.3.7;3.3.7 Conclusion;128
9;Bibliography;130
9.1;Original Publications;140
10;Index of Persons;142