The Call of Albion : Protestants, Jesuits, and British Literature in Poland-Lithuania, 1567-1775 /

The Call of Albion : Protestants, Jesuits, and British Literature in Poland-Lithuania, 1567-1775 /

An in-depth look at British-Polish literary pre-Enlightenment contacts, The Call of Albion explores how the reverberations of British religious upheavals in distant Poland-Lithuania surprisingly served to strengthen the impact of English, Scottish, and Welsh works on Polish literature. The book argu...

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Main Author: Hanusiewicz-Lavallee, Mirosława (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2024.

Series: Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
Jesuit Studies ; 45.

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Early Modern History.
History.

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Call Number: D410

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Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Polish Translation of John Foxe's Martyrology
  • 1 Cyprian Bazylik and His Protectors
  • 2 Foxe's Latin Martyrology and the Network of Compilers
  • 3 Bazylik's Translation Strategies
  • 4 Reception and Legacy
  • 5 Conclusion
  • 2 The Writings of English Catholics in Sixteenth-Century Poland-Lithuania
  • 1 Hosius, Jesuits, and the Recusants
  • 2 English Catholic Martyrological Literature: Translations and Compilations
  • 3 The Reception of English Writings on Controversial Theology
  • 4 Conclusion
  • 3 George Buchanan and Christian Humanism in Renaissance Poland-Lithuania
  • 1 The Scottish Prince of Poets
  • 2 Psalmorum Davidis paraphrasis poetica in Poland-Lithuania
  • 3 A Tragedy of Reason and Piety: Iephtes sive votum in the Adaptation of Jan Zawicki
  • 4 Conclusion
  • 4 John Barclay's Career in Poland-Lithuania
  • 1 Gente Caledonius, Gallus natalibus: Barclay in the Courts of Europe
  • 2 Barclay the Apologist and His Polish Debut
  • 3 Icon animorum and the Defense of Poland's Reputation
  • 4 Sicilian Princess among the Poles
  • 5 Conclusion
  • 5 Polish Readers, Adaptors, and Translators of the Epigrams of John Owen
  • 1 "The Most Noted Epigrammatist in the Age He Lived"
  • 2 Owen's Epigrams in the Colleges of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
  • 3 The Translations and Paraphrases of Owen's Epigrams into Polish
  • 4 Conclusion
  • 6 De origine ac progressu schismatis Anglicani in Jesuit Eighteenth-Century Translations and Adaptations in Poland-Lithuania
  • 1 The Sandomierz Translation of De origine ac progressu schismatis Anglicani
  • 2 Jan Poszakowski's Compilation
  • 3 Conclusion
  • 7 At the Dawn of the Enlightenment: The Pilgrim's Progress in Polish Translation
  • 1 Vernacular English Writings in Poland-Lithuania (before 1775)
  • 2 Bunyan and His Huguenot and Polish Translators
  • 3 Christian's Journey
  • 4 The Pilgrimage of Christiana
  • 5 Conclusion
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index.