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Article: Polish Literature and Language
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- Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
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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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