Sadržaj:
  • Introduction: on the uses of humanism
  • Humanist learning and networks in East Central Europe
  • Aspects of East Central European humanist learning
  • Humanist networks and the ethos of the republic of letters
  • The uses of humanism at the imperial court
  • The case of Johannes Sambucus
  • An ornament to the imperial court?
  • The multiple identities of the humanist : "vates, medicus bonus, historicusque"
  • The case of Andreas Dudith
  • The curious career of a heterodox humanist
  • The making of the humanist : self-fashioning through letters and treatises
  • Epilogue: Sambucus and Dudith encounter confessionalisation.