Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria. A second-born son in renaissance Europe

0552262 - FLÚ 2022 RIV AT eng M - Monography Chapter
Storchová, Lucie
Humanist Occasional Poetry and Strategies for Acquiring Patronage: The Case of a Court Physician Georg Handsch.
Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria. A second-born son in renaissance Europe. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2021 - (Dobalová, S.; Hausenblasová, J.), s. 351-364. Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Klasse, 909. ISBN 978-3-7001-8501-7
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Keywords : Renaissance Humanism * Neo-Latin Poetry * Self-Fashioning * Patronage * Medicine
OECD category: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

This article deals with the ways in which Georg Handsch (1529-1578), a Bohemian humanist and court physician serving under Archduke Ferdinand II, communicated with his patrons and learned friends. By analysing his occasional poems and marginal comments preserved in a huge manuscript volume housed at the Austrian National library in Vienna (ÖNB), the article demonstrates how Handsch expanded his scholarly networks over his lifetime. Its main research question is which styles, rhetorical strategies and modes of self-fashioning he used while approaching different groups of patrons and scholars.
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