CONTENTS

pp 5-6

Acknowledgements

pp 7-8

Introduction

pp 9-22

Section I - NEW CONTEXTS FOR CLASSICAL PAGAN CULTURE

pp 23-24

The Attitudes of Medieval Arabic Intellectuals towards Pythagorean Philosophy: different approaches and ways of influence

pp 25-44

Transcribing ‘Elegiac Comedies’: transformation of Greek and Latin theatrical traditions in twelfth- and thirteenth-century poetry

pp 45-70

Between Distance and Identification: reception of the ancient tradition in the Protestant religious poetry, the case of Wrocław, Gdańsk and Toruń in the context of Northern Humanism

pp 71-86

Section II - NEW CONTEXTS FOR THE CHRISTIAN PAST

pp 87-88

Old Martyrs, New Martyrs and the Coming of Islam: writing hagiography after the conquests

pp 89-112

Slavonic Kontakaria and Their Byzantine Counterparts: adapting a liturgical tradition

pp 113-130

Old Traditions and New Models: travelling monks in the late Byzantine hagiography from the Balkans

pp 131-154

The Authority of the Church Fathers in Sixteenth-Century Polish Sermons: Jakub Wujek, Grzegorz of żarnowiec and their postils

pp 155-182

Section III - INTELLECTUAL INTERMEDIARIES BETWEEN CULTURES

pp 183-184

Cultural Contacts between the Superpowers of Late Antiquity: the Syriac School of Nisibis and the transmission of Greek educational experience to the Persian Empire

pp 185-204

An Italian Intermediary in the Transmission of the Ancient Classical Traditions to Renaissance Poland: Leonardo Bruni and the Humanism in Cracow

pp 205-234

Jan Latosz (1539–1608) and His Natural Philosophy: reception of Arabic science in early modern Poland

pp 235-254

You Are Christians without a light from Heaven. A Pluriconfessional Encounter: an image of Georgians according to the seventeenth-century Theatine missionaries' writings

pp 255-272

Section IV - INTERCULTURAL CONTACTS AND DOMESTIC AGENDAS

pp 273-274

Stories from Afar and a Local Star: the Eastern imagery in the Dialogues by Sulpicius Severus and his view on the Church in Gaul

pp 275-288

‘When the Turk Roamed around Belgrade’: the Ottomans' advent to the Hungarian borderlands in the pre-Mohács Flugschriften

pp 289-309