Article: Polish Literature and Language

POLISH LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE

POLISH LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE. The "golden age" of Polish literature (1520 1620) arose out of modest medieval beginnings. Latin-writing historians (Gallus Anonymus, 1113 1115; Bishop of Cracow Wincenty Kad ł ubek, early thirteenth century; Jan D ł ugosz, or Longinus, fifteenth century) produced chronicles of Polish events; churchmen wrote poetry, saints' lives, and theological and political tracts. Extant literature in Polish paints a still more modest picture. We have a Psalter translated for Queen Jadwiga (late fourteenth or early fifteenth century) and a Bible done for Queen Sophia (c. 1455); two collections of sermons ...

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