The Reforms of Hetman of Zaporozhian Army Petro Sagaydachnyi and Kyiv Metropolitan Petro Mohyla in he Context of the “Rus’ People” Concept Formation Cover Image

Реформи гетьмана Війська Запорозького Петра Сагайдачного та київського митрополита Петра Могили в контексті становлення концепції «руського народу»
The Reforms of Hetman of Zaporozhian Army Petro Sagaydachnyi and Kyiv Metropolitan Petro Mohyla in he Context of the “Rus’ People” Concept Formation

Author(s): Vitalij Sherbak
Subject(s): History, Modern Age, 17th Century
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Renaissance humanist outlook; Reformation ideology; polemicists; the concept of “Rus” people; Petro Sagaydachnyi; Petro Mohyla

Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes the influence of the Renaissance humanist outlook and Reformation ideology on the development of the Ukrainian society at the end of 16th and the first half of 17th century. The Ukrainian intellectuals used traditional creative means in order to rethink the heritage of past eras. It is the most clearly manifested in the spiritual writings of polemicists. Appeal to the past became the basis for the emergence of the concept of the “Rus’ people.” Actually the question of the historical existence of the Rus’ people took on overtones of a political argument which was clearly formulated by Yov Boretskyi. The reforms in the military area of Hetman Petro Sagaydachnyi and in the confessional area of Kyiv Metropolitan Petro Mohyla were conducted in line with the establishment of the concept in social consciousness.

  • Issue Year: 143/2016
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 287-294
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Polish