ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book features an account of his literary activities, including song writing and the composition of poetry. It serves as a confessional map of Szepes County, an environment in which the various strains of Protestantism were not exclusive or ‘pure’; in practice, there was a gradient of nuances between the more stubbornly segregated camps. The book revolves around a discussion of these ‘margins’ or gaps and their relationship to the region’s conflicts. It uses Ambrosius’ diverse correspondence to help the author wrap up this discussion of the everyday life of a humanist who had been accepted into the Respublica litteraria. The book acquaints the reader with the habits of the circle of friends Ambrosius assembled and the distinctive perspective from which he viewed their lives in a small town in the foothills of the Carpathians.
