The Jevanhelije Ucytelnoje of Meletij Smotryckyj

Erscheinungsjahr 1987
ISBN: 978-0-916458-21-8
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 19, 568 Seiten, Format (B × H): 225 mm x 284 mm, Gewicht: 1660 g

Reihe: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute Publications

Meletij Smotryc´kyj viewed his Homilary Gospel (Jevanhelije ucytelnoje, Vievis, 1616) as a crucial requirement for the “spiritual good” of the Ruthenian (Ukrainian-Belorussian) nation. In light of the fierce debate over the Union of Brest (1596) he saw the need for an Orthodox collection of Gospel pericopes and sermons in the vernacular to supplant reliance on Polish Catholic and Protestant postils. Thus, he translated into Ruthenian a Church Slavonic collection of sermons on the Gospels, while simultaneously introducing formal revisions that allowed the work to compete more successfully with similar Polish texts.

As a result, the Homilary Gospel is important as a critical polemical text from the Catholic–Orthodox debate and also as a monument of early Ukrainian literature. This volume reproduces in facsimile the original printed edition along with three different versions of the Preface written by Smotryc´kyj. The Introduction sets the work in its literary and religious contexts and discusses Smotryc´kyj’s methods of translation and adaptation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smotryckyj, Meletij

Smotryc´kyj, Meletij

Weitere Mitwirkende

Frick, David A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Östliche & Orientalische Orthodoxe Kirchen

Über Autor(innen)

Frick, David A.
David A. Frick is a Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley.