The
Journal of Byelorussian Studies
Vol. I, No. 2
WESTERN INFLUENCES IN BYELORUSSIAN LITERATURE IN THE 15TH
AND 16TH
CENTURY
by A. Nadson
The
beginning of the 15th century marked an intensification of
cultural
relations between Western Europe and Byelorussia. ...Prague and Cracow
were no longer the only places to which the young men from the Grand
Duchy
resorted in search of learning; many of them went to Italy, Germany and
other countries. ... among the Byelorussian students abroad was a
certain
John Lettou, or John of Lithuania, who between 1480 and 1483 lived in
London,
where he established a printing press and printed a few books, mostly
of
a jurisprudential character...
With this
multiplication of contacts, there began to appear
Byelorussian
translations of Western religious and literary works...
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