Ставропігійське братство в історії меценатства України
Stavropegion Brotherhood in the history of Ukraine Charity

Summary/Abstract: Purpose of Article. The research investigates the philanthropic activity of Stavropigiyskyi's brotherhood and its role in the history of philanthropy in Ukraine. The methodology of the study of the phenomenon of philanthropy causes the need to study it in interdisciplinary research using the principle poly-methodology. Scientific novelty consists in expanding notions of philanthropic activity of Ukrainian fraternities. The example Stavropegion Brotherhood in Lviv shows how Ukrainian brotherhoods concentrating dominant intellectual force (with the Lviv’s Brotherhood was related activities of such prominent scholars and writers as Jove Boretskyi, Lawrence Zyzaniy, Pamvo Berynda) and having a specific economic potential, and patronage support in the highest circles of Ukrainian society, became an influential factor of national spiritual and cultural revival from the late sixteenth to the seventeenth century. The originality of fraternities as charitable institutions that played an essential role in the development of traditions of Ukrainian philanthropy was that they were subjects of philanthropic activity, at the same time, to some extent, as its object on behalf of those benefactors, who supported the struggle for Ukrainian national identity. Conclusions. Charity of fraternities was the new phenomenon, other than personal patronage, that emerged in the Ukrainian renaissance in XVI-XVII centuries. Fraternal traditions of philanthropy got further development in the history of Ukrainian culture.

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