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Nowa edycja Confessio fidei Abrahama Kulwiecia
A New Edition of Abraomas Kulvietis’sConfessio fidei

Author(s): Jakub Niedźwiedź
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Reformation in Lithuania; Abraomas Kulvetis (Abraham Kulwieć); Confessio fidei; Renaissance literature

Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses the latest edition of the works of a Lithuanian humanist and propagator of the Reformation, Abraham Kulwieć (Abraomas Kulvetis, ca. 1510/1512–1545), edited by a Lithuanian scholar, Dainora Pociūtė. In the first part the author raises the question of Kulvetis’s absence in the contemporary historical studies of Polish Renaissance literature. In the second part of the paper the author reminds the role of this person in the development of humanist culture and Reformation in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the first half of the 16th century.

  • Issue Year: 16/2014
  • Issue No: 3 (32)
  • Page Range: 367-377
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish