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Articles by Maria Grazia Bartolini

Zeitschrift für Slavische Philologie, 2024

Muscovy and the World: An Empire and Its Limits - Essays in Honor of Valerie Kivelson. Edited by Michael S. Flier, Nancy S. Kollmann, Daniel Rowland, and Erika Monahan (Slavica Publishers), 2023

The Slavic Review, 2023

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The Slavonic and East European Review, 2023

The Slavic and East European Journal, 2022

Modern Language Review, 2022

Kritika. Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 2022

Zeitschrift für Slavische Philologie, 2021

Harvard Ukrainian Studies, 37, 1-2, 2020

The only Ukrainian sermon printed during Stefan Iavors´kyi’s lifetime, Vynohrad Khrystov trema li... more The only Ukrainian sermon printed during Stefan Iavors´kyi’s lifetime, Vynohrad Khrystov trema litorasliamy divstvuiushchykh, vdovstvuiushchykh i supruzhnykh […] (Kyiv, 1698) was preached to Ivan Mazepa and his courtiers in Trinity Church in Baturyn in January 1698 to celebrate the wedding of Ivan Obydovs´kyi, Mazepa’s nephew. The sermon is prefaced by an allegorical picture that departs from convention. Students of Stefan Iavors´kyi have paid some attention to Vynohrad Khrystov but they have treated its textual and visual components as distinct parts. The present article analyzes the text and its illustration as part of a single discourse, one that creates that mutually illuminating combination of word and picture that is central to the emblematic method. Marriage in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was an object of criticism and religious reform among all Christian denominations, and Vynohrad Khrystov, as well as other Ukrainian marriage sermons, is a rich source for the history of early modern marriage doctrines and the way they were disseminated among ordinary men and women. While this sermon cannot tell us about the nature of early modern marriage, it does provide a useful insight into the changes, continuities, and contradictions of its representation. More important, it shows how Iavors´kyi combined the visual and the verbal to offer his audience a carefully constructed system of images that would foster acceptance of marriage as both a spiritual and a social institution.

Canadian Slavonic Papers, 2020

Much has been written on the importance of the arts of memory since Frances Yates’s The Art of Me... more Much has been written on the importance of the arts of memory since Frances Yates’s The Art of Memory (1966). However, in the expanding body of scholarship on mnemonic practices in the Middle Ages and early modern period, little attention has been given to the relationship between memory, preaching, and devotion, and to how sermons were remembered and transmitted. This article sets out to fill this gap by exploring the connection between rhetorical invention, memory, and the visual image in seventeenth-century Ukrainian preaching. Using the printed sermon collections of Ioanykii Galiatovs'kyi (Kliuch Razuminiia, 1659) and Antonii Radyvylovs'kyi (Ohorodok Marii Bohorodytsy, 1676; Vinets Khrystov, 1688) and the previously unstudied manuscript vernacular sermons of Stefan Iavors'kyi (1690s), the author demonstrates how Ukrainian Orthodox literati understood the role that visual perception, imagination, and memory played in structuring their own rhetorical material as well as developing their listeners’ virtuous behaviour. In particular, she argues that sermon literature used the techniques of visualization and memorization that enhanced the ability to meditate privately, and that these texts’ emphasis on vividness (enargeia or hypotyposis) and memory schemes was strengthened by the Aristotelian idea that all thoughts and feelings depended on the imagination.

Slavonic and East European Review, 2020

The article examines the visual embodiment of Peter Mohyla’s sacramental theology in the Trebnyk ... more The article examines the visual embodiment of Peter Mohyla’s sacramental theology in the Trebnyk (1646), one of the first Ruthenian Orthodox works to focus on the sacraments as a system. In particular, it shows that the pictorial representation of the sacraments is integral to the book’s theological program, providing useful insights into both the theology, praxis, and devotion of the Kiev Metropolitan and the broader cultural trends of seventeenth-century Ukraine, especially in the interrelated areas of Church renewal and clerical reform.

Київська Академія, 2018

The aim of this study is to investigate a group of nine early modern Ruthenian homilies dedicated... more The aim of this study is to investigate a group of nine early modern Ruthenian homilies dedicated to the Marian feast of the Dormition, while focusing on both the liturgical and extra-liturgical sources of their Biblical quotations. One feature of these texts is the presence of such Biblical quotations as Song of Songs 6, 9 («who is she that looketh forth as the morning») and Apocalypse 12, 1 («and there appeared a great wonder in heaven: a woman clothed in the sun») which, while being an integral part of the Latin exegetical tradition of the Assumption, played just a marginal — if any — role in the Byzantino-Slavic liturgical tradition of the Dormition. The use of the Marian imagery modelled on the Song of Songs and the Apocalypse may be ascribed to the influence of either exegetic Comments to the Bible, such as those of Cornelius a Lapide, or Marian homiletic and exegetic literature produced in the West in the late Middle Ages and the Counter-Reformation. On the other hand, the tradition of Hesychasm — especially Theophilos Kokkinos’ Dormition Canon and Gregory Palamas’ Dormition homilies — may well represent a first step in extending the Marian reading of the Song of Songs to the Byzantine-Slavic area. Another question that is addressed in this paper is how the intellectual and ecclesiastical context in the Ukrainian lands, a distinctive feature of which was pluriconfessionalism and its close ties to Western Baroque, influenced the way in which these authors represented Mary.

In this article I reconstruct the source of a Greek verse attributed to Zoroaster in Skovoroda’s ... more In this article I reconstruct the source of a Greek verse attributed to Zoroaster in Skovoroda’s dialogue Kol’co (1773–1774). In demonstrating
that the source of the pseudo-Zoroastrian verse is indeed the anonymous Hymni orphici, a 5th century text fi rst printed in Florence in 1500 (Ορφεως Αργοναυτικα), I also discuss the relationship between Skovoroda and Renaissance Neoplatonism. In particular, I show that Skovoroda seems to follow the tradition of Renaissance Neoplatonists (especially Marsilio Ficino and his notion of a perennial wisdom, or prisca theologia) in considering the philosophy of the ancients (Plato, Orpheus, Zoroaster) to be diff erent temporal manifestations of a perennial Truth, which achieved its fi nal synthesis in Christian religion.
Keywords: Skovoroda, Zoroaster, Renaissance Neoplatonism

Zeitschrift für Slawistik, 2018

My paper has two aims: first to examine the place of early modern Ruthenian sacramental confessio... more My paper has two aims: first to examine the place of early modern Ruthenian sacramental confession within the disciplining of attitudes enforced by the modern state and church upon the conduct of daily life. Second, to explore its contribution to the creation of a new relationship between the private sphere of conscience and the public sphere of politics and laws. In this study, I turn to homilies, sacramental treatises, and confessional manuals to reconstruct a “genealogy of confession” that takes into account both its disciplinary function as a means of preventing transgression and its role in stimulating the birth of an independent normative sphere for conscience.

Canadian Slavonic Papers, 2017

This article concerns the use of visual paratexts in seventeenth-century Ukraine, and of illustra... more This article concerns the use of visual paratexts in seventeenth-century Ukraine, and of illustrated title pages in particular. The books under analysis represent three crucial monuments of seventeenth-century Ukrainian sacred oratory. These are: Lazar Baranovych’s Truby sloves propovidnykh na narochityia dni prazdnikov (Kyiv 1674), Antonii Radyvylovs’kyi’s Ohorodok Marii Bohoroditsy (Kyiv 1676) and his Venets Khrystov (Kyiv 1688). I concentrate on the ‘cognitive’ aspect of their titular pages, dealing with them as a rhetorical process that emphasizes meditation, invention, and memory. More specifically, I investigate the correlation between the visual and the written as a specific literary-figurative ‘mode of thought’ that stands in a long Christian tradition of expounding images as meditational tools. I will show how Baranovych and Radyvylovs’kyi interact with this tradition, arguing that their title pages provide readers-viewers with both a machina meditativa, a meditative apparatus for reflecting upon the mystery of the Incarnation, and a machina rhetorica, a repertory of images that the users of the books, often themselves preachers, could use to compose new texts.

Studi Slavistici, 2016

This article explores the intersection of gender, religion and politics in the construction of fe... more This article explores the intersection of gender, religion and politics in the construction of female sanctity in Simeon Polockij’s court sermons, in particular in those contained in the Večerija duševnaja collection (Spiritual Supper, 1683). My aim is to investigate the way in which Simeon rewrites enduring and dominant images of female sanctity to suit the cultural needs and expectations of his royal addressees, providing them with spiritual role models and a “trusted authority of their own sex”. In doing this, I will attempt to understand what the women saints in these homilies can tell us about the cultural construction of femininity at the Muscovite court, and what they reveal about the expectations and prescriptions placed upon royal women in the late seventeenth century.

This paper investigates the rhetoric of martyrdom that developed in seventeenth-century Ukraine. ... more This paper investigates the rhetoric of martyrdom that developed in seventeenth-century Ukraine. My focus is limited to the discourse of Orthodox martyrdom as it is developed by Ukrainian Baroque preachers recounting the life and death of the martyrized princes Boris and Gleb. In particular, I focus on two exemplary cases, Antonij Radyvylovs’kyj’s “Slovo pervoe na sviatyx strastoterpec kniazej Borisa i Gleba” (Kiev, 1676) and Lazar Baranovyč’s “Slovo na ubenie sviatyx strastoterpec Borisa i Gleba” (Kiev, 1674). In tracing the contours of ideologies of martyrdom that arose in the specific cultural setting of seventeenth-century Kiev, I shall also tackle the problem of inter-confessional encounters, in particular of those taking place along the Orthodox-Catholic divide, by evaluating the impact of the “martyrological revival” experienced by post-Reformation Europe. However, the image of the Eastern Slavic Orthodox martyr as it emerges from the homiletic sources will be seen not only within the context of the international (Counter-Reformation) influences, but also within the context of the refiguring of the Ukrainian religious landscape after Petro Mohyla’s reforms.

The article compares two different redactions of Skovoroda’s first philosophical dialogue Narkiss... more The article compares two different redactions of Skovoroda’s first philosophical dialogue Narkiss (dating 1769-1771 and 1780s respectively), focusing on the interaction between the old Ukrainian literary tradition, Meletian Church Slavonic and the new Russian literary language. In seeking to ascertain whether Skovoroda’s language has been subject to any development, I point to the concurrent processes of deukranization and Church-Slavonicization as shaping the writer’s linguistic practice in the last decade (1780-1794) of his life and literary activity.

Il genere dei sermoni costituisce una tipologia culturale e letteraria tra le più rappresentative... more Il genere dei sermoni costituisce una tipologia culturale e letteraria tra le più rappresentative del Barocco, ma, sebbene gli ultimi decenni abbiano segnalato un'intensificazione degli studi e delle pubblicazioni, l'analisi tematica, linguistica, storico-sociale e religiosa delle raccolte omiletiche dei principali predicatori dell'area slavo orientale (Ioanikij Galjatovs'kyj, Antonij Radyvylovs'kyj, Lazar Baranovyč, Simeon Polockij, Dmytro Tuptalo) è ancora ferma a uno stadio embrionale 2 . Sono scarsamente sviluppate, ad esempio, le indagini sui legami tra il sermone e le fonti teologiche occidentali (polacche, tedesche, fiamminghe, spagnole, italiane), o sulla sua relazione con la realtà liturgica del giorno, la quale si esprimeva in un uso attentamente regolamentato delle citazioni tratte dalla Bibbia e dai libri liturgici .

Zeitschrift für Slavische Philologie, 2024

Muscovy and the World: An Empire and Its Limits - Essays in Honor of Valerie Kivelson. Edited by Michael S. Flier, Nancy S. Kollmann, Daniel Rowland, and Erika Monahan (Slavica Publishers), 2023

The Slavic Review, 2023

This proof has been sent to you on behalf of Cambridge University Press. Please review this page ... more This proof has been sent to you on behalf of Cambridge University Press. Please review this page and the proofs carefully, mark any corrections as necessary and answer all queries as listed on the 'Queries' page. Please note that this pdf is for proof checking purposes only. It should not be distributed to third parties and may not represent the final published version.

The Slavonic and East European Review, 2023

The Slavic and East European Journal, 2022

Modern Language Review, 2022

Kritika. Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 2022

Zeitschrift für Slavische Philologie, 2021

Harvard Ukrainian Studies, 37, 1-2, 2020

The only Ukrainian sermon printed during Stefan Iavors´kyi’s lifetime, Vynohrad Khrystov trema li... more The only Ukrainian sermon printed during Stefan Iavors´kyi’s lifetime, Vynohrad Khrystov trema litorasliamy divstvuiushchykh, vdovstvuiushchykh i supruzhnykh […] (Kyiv, 1698) was preached to Ivan Mazepa and his courtiers in Trinity Church in Baturyn in January 1698 to celebrate the wedding of Ivan Obydovs´kyi, Mazepa’s nephew. The sermon is prefaced by an allegorical picture that departs from convention. Students of Stefan Iavors´kyi have paid some attention to Vynohrad Khrystov but they have treated its textual and visual components as distinct parts. The present article analyzes the text and its illustration as part of a single discourse, one that creates that mutually illuminating combination of word and picture that is central to the emblematic method. Marriage in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was an object of criticism and religious reform among all Christian denominations, and Vynohrad Khrystov, as well as other Ukrainian marriage sermons, is a rich source for the history of early modern marriage doctrines and the way they were disseminated among ordinary men and women. While this sermon cannot tell us about the nature of early modern marriage, it does provide a useful insight into the changes, continuities, and contradictions of its representation. More important, it shows how Iavors´kyi combined the visual and the verbal to offer his audience a carefully constructed system of images that would foster acceptance of marriage as both a spiritual and a social institution.

Canadian Slavonic Papers, 2020

Much has been written on the importance of the arts of memory since Frances Yates’s The Art of Me... more Much has been written on the importance of the arts of memory since Frances Yates’s The Art of Memory (1966). However, in the expanding body of scholarship on mnemonic practices in the Middle Ages and early modern period, little attention has been given to the relationship between memory, preaching, and devotion, and to how sermons were remembered and transmitted. This article sets out to fill this gap by exploring the connection between rhetorical invention, memory, and the visual image in seventeenth-century Ukrainian preaching. Using the printed sermon collections of Ioanykii Galiatovs'kyi (Kliuch Razuminiia, 1659) and Antonii Radyvylovs'kyi (Ohorodok Marii Bohorodytsy, 1676; Vinets Khrystov, 1688) and the previously unstudied manuscript vernacular sermons of Stefan Iavors'kyi (1690s), the author demonstrates how Ukrainian Orthodox literati understood the role that visual perception, imagination, and memory played in structuring their own rhetorical material as well as developing their listeners’ virtuous behaviour. In particular, she argues that sermon literature used the techniques of visualization and memorization that enhanced the ability to meditate privately, and that these texts’ emphasis on vividness (enargeia or hypotyposis) and memory schemes was strengthened by the Aristotelian idea that all thoughts and feelings depended on the imagination.

Slavonic and East European Review, 2020

The article examines the visual embodiment of Peter Mohyla’s sacramental theology in the Trebnyk ... more The article examines the visual embodiment of Peter Mohyla’s sacramental theology in the Trebnyk (1646), one of the first Ruthenian Orthodox works to focus on the sacraments as a system. In particular, it shows that the pictorial representation of the sacraments is integral to the book’s theological program, providing useful insights into both the theology, praxis, and devotion of the Kiev Metropolitan and the broader cultural trends of seventeenth-century Ukraine, especially in the interrelated areas of Church renewal and clerical reform.

Київська Академія, 2018

The aim of this study is to investigate a group of nine early modern Ruthenian homilies dedicated... more The aim of this study is to investigate a group of nine early modern Ruthenian homilies dedicated to the Marian feast of the Dormition, while focusing on both the liturgical and extra-liturgical sources of their Biblical quotations. One feature of these texts is the presence of such Biblical quotations as Song of Songs 6, 9 («who is she that looketh forth as the morning») and Apocalypse 12, 1 («and there appeared a great wonder in heaven: a woman clothed in the sun») which, while being an integral part of the Latin exegetical tradition of the Assumption, played just a marginal — if any — role in the Byzantino-Slavic liturgical tradition of the Dormition. The use of the Marian imagery modelled on the Song of Songs and the Apocalypse may be ascribed to the influence of either exegetic Comments to the Bible, such as those of Cornelius a Lapide, or Marian homiletic and exegetic literature produced in the West in the late Middle Ages and the Counter-Reformation. On the other hand, the tradition of Hesychasm — especially Theophilos Kokkinos’ Dormition Canon and Gregory Palamas’ Dormition homilies — may well represent a first step in extending the Marian reading of the Song of Songs to the Byzantine-Slavic area. Another question that is addressed in this paper is how the intellectual and ecclesiastical context in the Ukrainian lands, a distinctive feature of which was pluriconfessionalism and its close ties to Western Baroque, influenced the way in which these authors represented Mary.

In this article I reconstruct the source of a Greek verse attributed to Zoroaster in Skovoroda’s ... more In this article I reconstruct the source of a Greek verse attributed to Zoroaster in Skovoroda’s dialogue Kol’co (1773–1774). In demonstrating
that the source of the pseudo-Zoroastrian verse is indeed the anonymous Hymni orphici, a 5th century text fi rst printed in Florence in 1500 (Ορφεως Αργοναυτικα), I also discuss the relationship between Skovoroda and Renaissance Neoplatonism. In particular, I show that Skovoroda seems to follow the tradition of Renaissance Neoplatonists (especially Marsilio Ficino and his notion of a perennial wisdom, or prisca theologia) in considering the philosophy of the ancients (Plato, Orpheus, Zoroaster) to be diff erent temporal manifestations of a perennial Truth, which achieved its fi nal synthesis in Christian religion.
Keywords: Skovoroda, Zoroaster, Renaissance Neoplatonism

Zeitschrift für Slawistik, 2018

My paper has two aims: first to examine the place of early modern Ruthenian sacramental confessio... more My paper has two aims: first to examine the place of early modern Ruthenian sacramental confession within the disciplining of attitudes enforced by the modern state and church upon the conduct of daily life. Second, to explore its contribution to the creation of a new relationship between the private sphere of conscience and the public sphere of politics and laws. In this study, I turn to homilies, sacramental treatises, and confessional manuals to reconstruct a “genealogy of confession” that takes into account both its disciplinary function as a means of preventing transgression and its role in stimulating the birth of an independent normative sphere for conscience.

Canadian Slavonic Papers, 2017

This article concerns the use of visual paratexts in seventeenth-century Ukraine, and of illustra... more This article concerns the use of visual paratexts in seventeenth-century Ukraine, and of illustrated title pages in particular. The books under analysis represent three crucial monuments of seventeenth-century Ukrainian sacred oratory. These are: Lazar Baranovych’s Truby sloves propovidnykh na narochityia dni prazdnikov (Kyiv 1674), Antonii Radyvylovs’kyi’s Ohorodok Marii Bohoroditsy (Kyiv 1676) and his Venets Khrystov (Kyiv 1688). I concentrate on the ‘cognitive’ aspect of their titular pages, dealing with them as a rhetorical process that emphasizes meditation, invention, and memory. More specifically, I investigate the correlation between the visual and the written as a specific literary-figurative ‘mode of thought’ that stands in a long Christian tradition of expounding images as meditational tools. I will show how Baranovych and Radyvylovs’kyi interact with this tradition, arguing that their title pages provide readers-viewers with both a machina meditativa, a meditative apparatus for reflecting upon the mystery of the Incarnation, and a machina rhetorica, a repertory of images that the users of the books, often themselves preachers, could use to compose new texts.

Studi Slavistici, 2016

This article explores the intersection of gender, religion and politics in the construction of fe... more This article explores the intersection of gender, religion and politics in the construction of female sanctity in Simeon Polockij’s court sermons, in particular in those contained in the Večerija duševnaja collection (Spiritual Supper, 1683). My aim is to investigate the way in which Simeon rewrites enduring and dominant images of female sanctity to suit the cultural needs and expectations of his royal addressees, providing them with spiritual role models and a “trusted authority of their own sex”. In doing this, I will attempt to understand what the women saints in these homilies can tell us about the cultural construction of femininity at the Muscovite court, and what they reveal about the expectations and prescriptions placed upon royal women in the late seventeenth century.

This paper investigates the rhetoric of martyrdom that developed in seventeenth-century Ukraine. ... more This paper investigates the rhetoric of martyrdom that developed in seventeenth-century Ukraine. My focus is limited to the discourse of Orthodox martyrdom as it is developed by Ukrainian Baroque preachers recounting the life and death of the martyrized princes Boris and Gleb. In particular, I focus on two exemplary cases, Antonij Radyvylovs’kyj’s “Slovo pervoe na sviatyx strastoterpec kniazej Borisa i Gleba” (Kiev, 1676) and Lazar Baranovyč’s “Slovo na ubenie sviatyx strastoterpec Borisa i Gleba” (Kiev, 1674). In tracing the contours of ideologies of martyrdom that arose in the specific cultural setting of seventeenth-century Kiev, I shall also tackle the problem of inter-confessional encounters, in particular of those taking place along the Orthodox-Catholic divide, by evaluating the impact of the “martyrological revival” experienced by post-Reformation Europe. However, the image of the Eastern Slavic Orthodox martyr as it emerges from the homiletic sources will be seen not only within the context of the international (Counter-Reformation) influences, but also within the context of the refiguring of the Ukrainian religious landscape after Petro Mohyla’s reforms.

The article compares two different redactions of Skovoroda’s first philosophical dialogue Narkiss... more The article compares two different redactions of Skovoroda’s first philosophical dialogue Narkiss (dating 1769-1771 and 1780s respectively), focusing on the interaction between the old Ukrainian literary tradition, Meletian Church Slavonic and the new Russian literary language. In seeking to ascertain whether Skovoroda’s language has been subject to any development, I point to the concurrent processes of deukranization and Church-Slavonicization as shaping the writer’s linguistic practice in the last decade (1780-1794) of his life and literary activity.

Il genere dei sermoni costituisce una tipologia culturale e letteraria tra le più rappresentative... more Il genere dei sermoni costituisce una tipologia culturale e letteraria tra le più rappresentative del Barocco, ma, sebbene gli ultimi decenni abbiano segnalato un'intensificazione degli studi e delle pubblicazioni, l'analisi tematica, linguistica, storico-sociale e religiosa delle raccolte omiletiche dei principali predicatori dell'area slavo orientale (Ioanikij Galjatovs'kyj, Antonij Radyvylovs'kyj, Lazar Baranovyč, Simeon Polockij, Dmytro Tuptalo) è ancora ferma a uno stadio embrionale 2 . Sono scarsamente sviluppate, ad esempio, le indagini sui legami tra il sermone e le fonti teologiche occidentali (polacche, tedesche, fiamminghe, spagnole, italiane), o sulla sua relazione con la realtà liturgica del giorno, la quale si esprimeva in un uso attentamente regolamentato delle citazioni tratte dalla Bibbia e dai libri liturgici .

Harvard University Press, 2025

Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2024

COMITATO SCIENTIFICO Giovanna Brogi Bercoff (Direttore), Michaela Böhmig, Stefano Garzonio (Presi... more COMITATO SCIENTIFICO Giovanna Brogi Bercoff (Direttore), Michaela Böhmig, Stefano Garzonio (Presidente AIS), Nicoletta Marcialis, Marcello Garzaniti (Direttore esecutivo), Krassimir Stantchev COMITATO DI REDAZIONE Alberto Alberti, Giovanna Brogi Bercoff, Marcello Garzaniti, ...

COMITATO SCIENTIFICO Giovanna Brogi Bercoff (Direttore), Stefano Bianchini, Marcello Garzaniti (P... more COMITATO SCIENTIFICO Giovanna Brogi Bercoff (Direttore), Stefano Bianchini, Marcello Garzaniti (Presidente AIS), Persida Lazarević, Giovanna Moracci, Monica Perotto COMITATO DI REDAZIONE Alberto Alberti, Giovanna Brogi Bercoff, Maria Chiara Ferro, Marcello Garzaniti, Giovanna ...

K. Stančev, Issledovanija v oblasti srednevekovoj literatury pravoslavnogo slavjanstva, Instytut ... more K. Stančev, Issledovanija v oblasti srednevekovoj literatury pravoslavnogo slavjanstva, Instytut Filologii Słowiańskiej, Kraków 2012 (= Krakowsko-Wileńskie studia slawistyczne, 7).

Studi Slavistici, Jan 1, 2008

Scripta Ucrainica Europaea, Jan 1, 2009

Studi Slavistici, Jan 1, 2008

Studi slavistici, Jan 1, 2010

Studi Slavistici, Jan 1, 2010

Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History

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The paper explores Hryhorii Skovoroda’s dialogue “Archistratigus Michael's Fight with Satan” ... more The paper explores Hryhorii Skovoroda’s dialogue “Archistratigus Michael's Fight with Satan” (“Bran Arkhystratyha Mykhaila so Satanoiu”, 1783), which contains several quotations from two authors — Teofan Prokopovych and Varlaam Liashchevskyi – who belonged to Skovoroda’s Alma Mater, the Kyiv Mohyla Academy. Being a unique occurrence in Skovoroda’s writings, these quotations from contemporary authors have been analyzed as an instance of a peculiar “Mohylian subtext” that sheds light on the relationship between the Ukrainian philosopher and his Alma Mater. In “Bran Arkhystratyha”, the angelic ranks battling against demonic forces sing a song taken from Liashchevskyi’s tragicomedy “The Chased Church” (“Honymaia tserkov”) and from Prokopovych’s 1709 epinikion in honor of tsar Peter’s victory near Poltava. While Prokopovych’s verses have been slightly changed (Antichrist replaces ‘apostate’ — ‘otstupnyk’) to reflect the major theme of “Bran Arkhystratyha” — the fight against Satan — ...

Kyivan Academy, 2018

Цитати з Пісні над Піснями та Одкровення в руських гоміліях на Успення (XVII ст.): між латинським... more Цитати з Пісні над Піснями та Одкровення в руських гоміліях на Успення (XVII ст.): між латинськими впливами і тяглістю візантійської моделі Стаття містить аналіз дев'яти українських гомілій XVII ст., присвячених Успенню Богородиці,-проповідей Лазаря Барановича, Йоаникія Ґалятовського, Леонтія Карповича, Антонія Радивилoвського, Кирила Транквілліона-Ставровецького та Симеона Полоцького. Проповіді Полоцького розглядаються як приклад текстів, написаних для московської публіки автором, вихованим у мультиконфесійному середовищі Речі Посполитої. Авторка зосереджує свою увагу на біблійних цитатах (особливо з Пісні над Піснями 6,9 та Одкровення 12), зокрема на їхніх літургійних і позалітургійних джерелах. У статті сформульовано гіпотезу, згідно з якою руські проповідники часто запозичували образи Богородиці з західних гомілетико-літургійних творів, що підтверджує низка текстуальних запозичень із творів католицької екзегетики, наприклад, Корнелія а Ляпіде, св. Бернарда та св. Бонавентури. Аналіз образу Богородиці здійснено в контексті співвідношення православ'я (включно з візантійською й ісихастською гомілетічною традицією) і католицизму в Україні XVII ст.

Studi Slavistici, Jan 23, 2015

Il testo skovorodiano Ubuždešsja, viděša slavu ego. Un trattato catechetico-liturgico sulla festa... more Il testo skovorodiano Ubuždešsja, viděša slavu ego. Un trattato catechetico-liturgico sulla festa della Trasfigurazione?* Il testo skovorodiano Ubuždešsja, viděša slavu ego (in seguito uv) è attestato da un solo autografo, conservato presso l'Archivio dell'Accademia russa delle Scienze a San Pietroburgo (f. 216, оp. 3, n. 227, аrk. 1-2), ed è stato pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1894, nell'edizione delle opere skovorodiane a cura di Dmytro Bahalij (1894: 175-182). Di dimensioni assai ridotte (tra le tre e le quattro pagine a stampa), uv non presenta alcuna datazione, ma le sue caratteristiche grafiche e morfo-fonetiche ci permettono di collocarlo tra la fine degli anni '50 e gli anni '60 del xviii secolo (cf. Skovoroda 2011: 202; Bartolini 2013). Dopo un capillare rimaneggiamento linguistico, uv è stato inglobato all'interno dell'ultimo dei lavori skovorodiani, Dialog, imja emu Potop zmiin (1791), di cui forma una delle due sezioni conclusive, con il titolo O Preobraženii. Sulla natura e sulla funzione originaria di uv sono stati espressi giudizi discordanti. Riprendendo un'ipotesi formulata da I. Sreznevskij (1833: 72), Dmytro Bahalij (1894: 175) lo ha definito un "sermone introduttivo" ["вступительная проповедь"] al corso di catechismo tenuto dallo scrittore presso il Collegio di Charkiv durante l'anno accademico 1768-1769. Secondo Machnovec' (1972: 205sgg.) non esisterebbero prove a sostegno della tesi di Bahalij e il testo andrebbe invece catalogato tra i trattati filosofici. Nel nostro studio cercheremo di dimostrare che l'attribuzione del titolo O Preobraženii non andrà ritenuta un evento casuale, ma che essa rappresenta, al contrario, un indizio dell'originale destinazione retorica di questo testo, che interpreteremo come un commento catechetico-liturgico sulla festa della Trasfigurazione. La nostra analisi terrà conto della componente biblica del testo, cercando di evidenziare i legami tra le citazioni scritturali presenti al suo interno e la prassi liturgica prevista per questa festa dalla chiesa bizantinoslava. L'interpretazione della letteratura slava ecclesiastica nel contesto del suo rapporto con la Bibbia e con la situazione liturgica rappresenta, infatti, un campo d'indagine che solo ora si inizia ad esplorare 1 e che può dare risultati oltremodo interessanti nel caso di * Le ricerche alla base di questo articolo sono state svolte grazie ad una Eugene and Daymel Shklar Research Fellowship conferita nel 2013 dall'Harvard Institute of Ukrainian Studies. Colgo inoltre l'occasione per ringraziare il referee anonimo di "Studi Slavistici" per i preziosi suggerimenti. 1 Sulle norme comuni che regolano il modo di operare tramite le immagini desunte dalla Bibbia nel contesto della letteratura slavo-ecclesiastica ha riflettuto Naumow, esaminando la speci-CORE Metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk

The aim of this study is to investigate a group of nine early modern Ruthenian homilies dedicated... more The aim of this study is to investigate a group of nine early modern Ruthenian homilies dedicated to the Marian feast of the Dormition, while focusing on both the liturgical and extra-liturgical sources of their Biblical quotations. One feature of these texts is the presence of such Biblical quotations as Song of Songs 6, 9 («who is she that looketh forth as the morning») and Apocalypse 12, 1 («and there appeared a great wonder in heaven: a woman clothed in the sun») which, while being an integral part of the Latin exegetical tradition of the Assumption, played just a marginal — if any — role in the Byzantino-Slavic liturgical tradition of the Dormition. The use of the Marian imagery modelled on the Song of Songs and the Apocalypse may be ascribed to the influence of either exegetic Comments to the Bible, such as those of Cornelius a Lapide, or Marian homiletic and exegetic literature produced in the West in the late Middle Ages and the Counter-Reformation. On the other hand, the tr...

Zeitschrift für Slawistik

Summary The article explores how two early modern Ukrainian preachers, Stefan Javors’kyj and Anto... more Summary The article explores how two early modern Ukrainian preachers, Stefan Javors’kyj and Antonij Radyvylovs’kyj, adapt and combine Neoplatonic philosophy, Aristotelian epistemology, the antique, and the Renaissance idea of poetry and painting as sister arts to create pictorial texts that translate some material manifestations of contemporary visual culture such as the emblem into written form; how these images – both visual and verbal – help structure and organize thought, and what effects they might have on cognition. I will argue that in their sermons, the traditional concept of ut pictura poesis often intersects with what we may call ut pictura creatio divina (as is painting so is divine creation) – with an emphasis on the analogies that tie painting to God’s creation of man. Just like God “painted” man into existence so the preacher should make use of verbal pictures to visualize the moral and spiritual truths he is propounding to his audience. Accordingly, in the second par...

The Slavonic and East European Review, 2020

The article examines the visual embodiment of Peter Mohyla’s sacramental theology in the Trebnyk ... more The article examines the visual embodiment of Peter Mohyla’s sacramental theology in the Trebnyk (1646), one of the first Ruthenian Orthodox works to focus on the sacraments as a system. In particular, it shows that the pictorial representation of the sacraments is integral to the book’s theological program, providing useful insights into both the theology, praxis, and devotion of the Kiev Metropolitan and the broader cultural trends of seventeenth-century Ukraine, especially in the interrelated areas of Church renewal and clerical reform.

Perspektywy Kultury

This article addresses an aspect of the seventeenth-century milieu that has not received the scho... more This article addresses an aspect of the seventeenth-century milieu that has not received the scholarly attention it deserves: how Ukrainian Orthodox literati received, adapted, and transformed the Song of Songs and its bridal imagery. At the crossroads between the Catholic West and the Byzantine East, seventeenth-century Ukraine is a fascinating case study of the shifts of meaning and intended audience of the particular biblical book and its exegetical tradition. In particular, I examine how some of the most influential early modern Ukrainian writers (Lazar Baranovych, Ioanikii Galiatovs’kyi, Stefan Iavors’kyi, and Dymytrii Tuptalo) used the Song as a template for meditating on the nature of the Church as they envisioned it – as an instrument for thinking about a “collective” institution. I argue that these authors brought their involvement with ecclesiastical politics and pastoral responsibility to the exegesis of this book, using the Song, often in combination with imagery from th...

Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici

This article investigates the rhetoric of martyrdom that developed in seventeenth-century Ukraine... more This article investigates the rhetoric of martyrdom that developed in seventeenth-century Ukraine and specifically the discourse of Orthodox martyrdom as elaborated by Ukrainian Baroque preachers in recounting the life and death of the martyrized princes Boris and Gleb. We focus in particular on one exemplary case, that of Antonij Radyvylovs’kyj’s Slovo pervoe na sviatyx strastoterpec kniazej Borisa i Gleba (Kyiv, 1676). Tracing the contours of specific ideologies of martyrdom that arose in 17th-century Kyiv, we also address the issue of interconfessional encounters, in particular those taking place along the Orthodox-Catholic divide.

Стаття містить аналіз дев’яти українських гомілій XVII ст., присвячених Успенню Богородиці, — про... more Стаття містить аналіз дев’яти українських гомілій XVII ст., присвячених Успенню Богородиці, — проповідей Лазаря Барановича, Йоаникія Ґалятовського, Леонтія Карповича, Антонія Радивилoвського, Кирила Транквілліона-Ставровецького та Симеона Полоцького. Проповіді Полоцького розглядаються як приклад текстів, написаних для московської публіки автором, вихованим у мультиконфесійному середовищі Речі Посполитої. Авторка зосереджує свою увагу на біблійних цитатах (особливо з Пісні над Піснями 6,9 та Одкровення 12), зокрема на їхніх літургійних і позалітургійних джерелах. У статті сформульовано гіпотезу, згідно з якою руські проповідники часто запозичували образи Богородиці з західних гомілетико-літургійних творів, що підтверджує низка текстуальних запозичень із творів католицької екзегетики, наприклад, Корнелія а Ляпіде, св. Бернарда та св. Бонавентури. Аналіз образу Богородиці здійснено в контексті співвідношення православ’я (включно з візантійською й ісихастською гомілетічною традицією) і ...

Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, Nov 1, 2020

The only Ukrainian sermon printed during Stefan Iavors\ub4kyi\u2019s lifetime, Vynohrad Khrystov ... more The only Ukrainian sermon printed during Stefan Iavors\ub4kyi\u2019s lifetime, Vynohrad Khrystov trema litorasliamy divstvuiushchykh, vdovstvuiushchykh i supruzhnykh [\u2026] (Kyiv, 1698) was preached to Ivan Mazepa and his courtiers in Trinity Church in Baturyn in January 1698 to celebrate the wedding of Ivan Obydovs\ub4kyi, Mazepa\u2019s nephew. The sermon is prefaced by an allegorical picture that departs from convention. Students of Stefan Iavors\ub4kyi have paid some attention to Vynohrad Khrystov but they have treated its textual and visual components as distinct parts. The present article analyzes the text and its illustration as part of a single discourse, one that creates that mutually illuminating combination of word and picture that is central to the emblematic method. Marriage in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was an object of criticism and religious reform among all Christian denominations, and Vynohrad Khrystov, as well as other Ukrainian marriage sermons, is a rich source for the history of early modern marriage doctrines and the way they were disseminated among ordinary men and women. While this sermon cannot tell us about the nature of early modern marriage, it does provide a useful insight into the changes, continuities, and contradictions of its representation. More important, it shows how Iavors\ub4kyi combined the visual and the verbal to offer his audience a carefully constructed system of images that would foster acceptance of marriage as both a spiritual and a social institution

Abstract Poesia e filosofia nell'Ucraina del Settecento. Motivi epicurei nel Sad bozˇestvenn... more Abstract Poesia e filosofia nell'Ucraina del Settecento. Motivi epicurei nel Sad bozˇestvennych pesnej di HS Skovoroda/MG Bartolini.-(Quaderni di Acme; 98).-In: La poesia filosofica; A. Costazza.-Milano: Cisalpino, 2007.-ISBN 9788832360875.-p. 129-...

Canadian Slavonic Papers, 2020

Much has been written on the importance of the arts of memory since Frances Yates’s The Art of Me... more Much has been written on the importance of the arts of memory since Frances Yates’s The Art of Memory (1966). However, in the expanding body of scholarship on mnemonic practices in the Middle Ages and early modern period, little attention has been given to the relationship between memory, preaching, and devotion, and to how sermons were remembered and transmitted. This article sets out to fill this gap by exploring the connection between rhetorical invention, memory, and the visual image in seventeenth-century Ukrainian preaching. Using the printed sermon collections of Ioanykii Galiatovs'kyi (Kliuch Razuminiia, 1659) and Antonii Radyvylovs'kyi (Ohorodok Marii Bohorodytsy, 1676; Vinets Khrystov, 1688) and the previously unstudied manuscript vernacular sermons of Stefan Iavors'kyi (1690s), the author demonstrates how Ukrainian Orthodox literati understood the role that visual perception, imagination, and memory played in structuring their own rhetorical material as well a...

This article explores the intersection of gender, religion and politics in the construction of fe... more This article explores the intersection of gender, religion and politics in the construction of female sanctity in Simeon Polockij’s court sermons, in particular in those contained in the Vecerija dusevnaja collection (‘Spiritual Supper’, 1683). My aim is to investigate the way in which Simeon rewrites enduring and dominant images of female sanctity to suit the cultural needs and expectations of his royal addressees, providing them with spiritual role models and a “trusted authority of their own sex”. In doing this, I will attempt to understand what the women saints in these homilies can tell us about the cultural construction of femininity at the Muscovite court, and what they reveal about the expectations and prescriptions placed upon royal women in the late seventeenth century.

To Yu. I. Manin, the founder, on the occasion of his 70-th birthday Contents 1 Recollection on cy... more To Yu. I. Manin, the founder, on the occasion of his 70-th birthday Contents 1 Recollection on cyclic homology. 4 2 Cyclic bimodules. 7 3 Gauss-Manin connection. 13 4 Categorical approach. 16 5 Discussion 25 * Partially supported by CRDF grant RUM1-2694-MO05.

Canadian Slavonic Papers, 2017

Application of information technology in education is an inevitable trend of modern medical educa... more Application of information technology in education is an inevitable trend of modern medical education. On the base of the characteristics and knowledge structure of urinary, we analyze information alization of urology education on the aspects of classroom teaching and network teaching. Through the application of computer technology, a virtual bank of tissue biopsies, urological multimedia courseware and interaction platform should be built.