Impacts of Ukrainian Voluntary Brotherhoods of Laymen on the European Book Culture: For the Legacy of Y. D. Isaievych

Session Submission Type: Panel

Brief Description

The Orthodox typographies in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth were managed by the Ukrainian and Belarusian lay brotherhoods, i.e. confraternities. These Ukrainian brotherhoods played a significant role in the shaping of the national identity of the Serbs and of other Slavic peoples who inhabited the Habsburg Empire, via the book-migration. Impacts on the Romanian Orthodox culture were also significant; and their books reached far distances on the Balkans, too. - The first paper by P. Yeremieiev overlooks the historiography of brotherhoods by Ukrainian authors of the 19th century. - S. Shumilo presents his findings in the monasteries of Mount Athos and proves the migration of Ukrainian liturgical books reached such a far and highly prestigious place. - A. Sapovici presents the cultural contacts of Romanian Orthodoxy with the Orthodox Confessional Culture of the Ukrainian lands, as reflected in the activity of Matthew of Myra, who brought books and manuscripts to Wallachia. - S. Földvári (the panel organizer) describes the migration of Ukrainian books to the Slavic peoples of the Habsburg Empire, whose national-confessional identity was provided by the book import from Ukrainian typographies, too, and newly found archival sources still more evidence it.

Sub Unit

• Early Slavic Studies

Chair

• Ostap Sereda, Ukrainian Catholic U (Ukraine)

Papers

• Early Modern Orthodox Brotherhoods in Church Historiography of the Long 19th Century: Confessionalisation, National Identity, and Methodological Change - Pavlo Yeremieiev, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National U (Ukraine)

• Lviv and Ostroh Cyrillic Early Printed Books of the 16th-18th Centuries in the Libraries of the Monasteries of Mount Athos. - Serhii Shumylo, National Academy of Sciences (Ukraine)

• Ukrainian Books in the Habsburg Empire: Cultural Contacts of the Orthodox Confraternities with the Byzantine-Rite Slavic Peoples of the Hungarian Kingdom - Sandor Foldvari, U of Debrecen (Hungary)

• The Contribution of Matthew of Myra to the Spreading of the Orthodox Book Culture in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the beginning of the 17th Century - Anca Mihaela Sapovici, Romanian Academy (Romania)

Discussant

• Ostap Sereda, Ukrainian Catholic U (Ukraine)

Session Manager

• Aliide Naylor, Independent Scholar