The reformation in Poland

by Paul Fox

The Renaissance, the art of printing, the influence of foreign universities, religious toleration, and the aristocratic character of the Polish Reformation,—these were, then, some of the most important social causes of the growth of the Reformation in Poland.

[181] Roman Pilat, History of Polish Literature (Historja literatury polskiej), Lwów, 1909, vol. ii, No. 1 p. 24.

[182] Peter Chmielowski, History of Polish Literature (Historja literatury polskiej), Lwów, vol. i, pp. 90-91.

[183] Stanislaus Kot, Andrew Frycz Modrzewski, Cracow, 1919, pp. 13-15.

[184] Chmielowski, vol. i, pp. 197-202.

[185] Kot, pp. 189-190.

[186] Cf. Chmielowski, vol. i, pp. 150-152, and Smoleński, Hist. of Poland, p. 93.

[187] Cf. Pilat, vol. ii, No. 1, p. 28.

[188] See Arthur Górski, Poland’s Objective (Ku czemu Polska szła), Warsaw, 1919, p. 46, and Lewinski-Corwin, A Hist. of Poland, p. 142.

[189] Pilat, vol. ii, No. 1, pp. 36-37.