Pannonia in the Writings of 15th/16th-Century Humanists

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Rokai, M. (2017). Pannonia in the Writings of 15th/16th-Century Humanists: Petrus Ransanus, Antonio Bonfini, Nicolaus Olahus and Paulus Gregoriancz, (46), 144-159. Retrieved from http://emu.f.bg.ac.rs/lucidaintervalla/issues/46(2017).pdf
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Title

Pannonia in the Writings of 15th/16th-Century Humanists

Subtitle

Petrus Ransanus, Antonio Bonfini, Nicolaus Olahus and Paulus Gregoriancz

Author

Melina, Rokai

Journal

Lucida intervalla

Volume
Issue

46

Start page

144

End page

159

ISSN

1450-6645

ISBN
DOI
URL

http://emu.f.bg.ac.rs/lucidaintervalla/issues/46(2017).pdf

Date

2017

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to investigate the transfer of the name of ancient Pannonia from ancient sources, via the humanists’ writings, to the modern times. The research is based on the writings of four distinguished humanists whose work covered the region: Ransanus, Bonfini, Olahus and Gregoriancz. Taking into account preceding findings of the most distinguished expert on renaissance geography of Pannonia, Peter Kulcsár, the paper attempts to offer a possibility for identification of an author, whom Ransanus had employed in his work on Pannonia. The paper shows how these humanist writers copied from a variety of ancient sources, as well as from their immediate predecessors. It also points out how this reconstructed image of Pannonia from ancient sources and near contemporaries was sometimes used in a political context, reminiscent of discourses on the imagological ‘other’, common in the understanding the image of a region in the modern period.

Keywords

ancient Pannonia, Antonio Bonfini, humanism, Nicolaus Olahus, Paulus Gregoriancz, Petrus Ransanus