Table of Contents

List of Illustrations IV Preface viii Foreword xi Introduction xiii

Part I. Historical and Social Aspects of the Renaissance in Poland 1. Aleksander Gieysztor Polish Historians and the Need for History in 15th and 16th Century Poland 2. Antoni Maczak Polish Society and Power System in the Renaissance 17 3. Andrzej Walicki The Political Heritage of the 16th Century and its Influence on the Nation-building Ideologies of the Polish Enlightenment and Romanticism 34

Part II. Religion and Law in Renaissance Poland 4. George H. Williams Strains in the Christology of the Emerging Polish Brethren 61 5. Jerzy Kloczowski Some Remarks on the Social and Religious History of 16th Century Poland 96 6. Janusz Tazbir The Polish Reformation as an Intellectual Movement 111 7. Wenceslas J. Wagner Justice for All: Polish Democracy in the Renaissance Period in Historical Perspective 127 ii Table of Contents

Part III. Science and Learning in Renaissance Poland 8. Andrzej Wroblewski The Cracovian Background of Nicholas Copernicus 147 9. Edward Rosen What Copernicus Owed to the West and What We Owe to Copernicus 161 10. Waldemar Voise Polish Renaissance Political Theory: Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski 174 11. Paul W. Knoll The University Context of Kochanowski's Era: Humanism and the Academic Culture of the Early Renaissance in Poland 189

Part IV. Renaissance Poland and Other Cultures 12. Tadeusz Ulewicz Polish Humanism and its Italian Sources: Beginnings and Historical Development 215 13. Samuel Fiszman The Significance of Polish Renaissance and Baroque for Eastern Slavic Nations 236 14. Teresa Bahik-Ulewiczowa The Senator of Wawrzyniec Goslicki and the Elisabethan Counsellor 258

Part V. Art and Architecture in Renaissance Poland 15. Jan Biatostocki Renaissance Sculpture in Poland and its European Context: Some Selected Problems 281

16. Adam Mitob§dzki Architecture under the Last Jagiellons in its Political and Social Context 291 Table of Contents iii

Part VI. Jan Kochanowski 17. Wiktor Weintraub Kochanowski's Fame 303 18. Janusz Pelc Jan Kochanowski, Creator of Polish National Literature and the Renaissance in Poland 321 19. Maria Renata Mayenowa The Linguistic Form of Jan Kochanowski's Poetry 343 20. Mieczyslaw Giergielewicz Jan Kochanowski's Versification 357 21. Jerzy Axer Classical Tradition in Kochanowski's Work: Problems of Reception 374 22. Jerzy R. Krzyzanowski Everything is But a Trifle 383 23. Tymoteusz Karpowicz To Whom Does the Poet Sing? 389 24. Paulina Buchwald-Pelcowa Jan Kochanowski: The Poet's 16th Century Editions in the Context of Contemporary Polish and European Printing 396 25. Erna Hilfstein Jan Kochanowski through the Eyes of His Earliest Biographer 413 26. Ante Kadic Jan Kochanowski and Croatian Literature 421 27. Paulina Lewin Jan Kochanowski: The Model Poet in Eastern Slavic Lectures on the Poetics of the 17th and 18th Centuries 429

Contributors 445 Index 460