Polish historical book as a phenomenon of intellectual culture of the Renaissance

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the problem of evolution of Polish history book in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. The author studied manuscripts and old-printed books of most famous Polish historians – Jan Długosz, Mathias Mechovius, Martin Kromer, Marcin and Joachim Bielski, Maciej Stryjkowski, Alexander Guagnini – written at the time in Latin and Polish.

Keywords

• poland
• the renaissance
• history book
• intellectual culture
• polish
• latin
• historiography
• chronicles