This research program aims at creating a center of expertise for the history of scholarly networks in the early modern Europe, a period traditionally described as one of great cultural discontinuity and renewal. By reconstructing the communication process between Hungary and the rest of Europe in the early modern age with digital tools, and by examining important agents of knowledge (including Joh
annes Sambucus, György Enyedi, János Apáczai Csere), the project aims at challenging stereotypical descriptions of the European „center and periphery” and it will cast new light on themes of central relevance in the pre-modern world. The central research aim of the team will be to prepare and edit an English-language encyclopedia of humanistic authors and works from the historical Kingdom of Hungary in the period between 1420 and 1620, which will be published as a volume of the prestigious Verfasserlexikon series. The individual case studies within the larger research framework will be presented in five monograph-length studies and source editions (including the Latin Works of János Apáczai Csere; the Sermons of György Enyedi, vol. 1-2, the Commonplace books in early modern Hungary – catalog and study, and the Letters of Johannes Sambucus).
