"Companion to Central and East European Humanism: Czech Lands" is the first reference work on humanists and their literary activities in this region which appears in English. In two volumes, it offers biographical and bibliographical data about humanist literary life between ca. 1480 and 1630. Apart from introductory chapters, the first volume includes more than 150 biographical entries dealing with authors whose names begin with letters A-L as well as complete overviews of the most recent research on humanism in Central Europe. The interdisciplinary research team paid special attention to local approaches to classical tradition, to forms of humanistic polylingualism and to participation of Bohemian authors in European scholarly networks. Both volumes are of high relevance for all academics who are interested in humanism and history of early modern literature in Central Europe. weiterlesen