Creative Melanchthonism: The Limits of Cultural Exchange Research on the Example of University Humanism in the Second Half of the 16th Century
2019
Abstract
The study deals with possible reasons undelying the motivation of the older generations of Czech researchers who - despite plentiful source material - showed little interest in a specific case of cultural exchange, namely one that took place after mid-sixteenth century between Bohemian scholars and German Lutheran universities. The subject of this exchange was the natural philosophy of Philip Melanchthon and its adaptation to new cultural environment, mainly that of the Prague Utraquist university.
The author persents various cultural and ideological factors which may have contributed to underpresentation of this exchange in 19th- and 20th-century Czech historiography.