The Alchemy of Light by Urszula Szulakowska

Konfessionelle Interaktion in Ostmitteleuropa 1570–1700 (2006), 279–94 ‘The Reception of Erasmianism in Hungary and the Contexts of Erasmian Program. Die Revision protestantischer Geschichtsvorstellungen in den Predigten des ungarischen Jesuiten Péter Pázmány’, in Anna Ohlidal and Stefan Samerski, eds, Jesuitische Frömmigkeitskulturen. He is the author of two volumes on early modern Hungarian literary history, Az idő ósága-Történetiség és történetszemlélet a régi magyar irodalomban (2002) and Elváltozott idők (2006), as well as a large number of articles and book chapters, among them: ‘Hungarian Friends of Erasmus in the Sixteenth Century and Today’, in Arnoud Visser, ed., In Search of the Republic of Letters: Intellectual Relations between Hungary and The Netherlands 1500–1800 (1999), 21–28 ‘The Names of the Holy Maccabees: Erasmus and the Origin of the Hungarian Protestant Martirology’, in Marcell Sebők, ed., Republic of Letters, Humanism, Humanities (2005), 45−62 ‘Historischer Skeptizismus und Frömmigkeit.

He graduated in Hungarian and Russian literature from Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest, and obtained his PhD at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Pál Ács is Vice-Head of the Center of Renaissance Studies, Institute for Literary Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

The Alchemy of Light by Urszula Szulakowska