Collected Works of Meletij Smotryckyi (Harvard Library of Early Ukrainian Literature: Texts) Cloth - 1987

Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1987. Hardcover. Near Fine in As New dust jacket. Facsimiles of ten important religous writings beginning with Threnas (1610) and concluding with Exaethesis (1629), with an introduction by David Frick surveying controversial details of Smotryc'kyj's biography and analyzing the corpus of works attributed to him. 805 pages. Cover corners very slightly bumped. DJ in mylar sleeve. Shipping will be extra for this large heavy book; please inquire.; 8 3/4 x 11 1/4

Harvard University Press for the Ukrainian Research Institute of Harvard University. Used - Very Good. 1987. Cloth, dj. 860 pp. Dust Jacket is in Good condition. (Subject: Eastern Europe & Russia.)

Harvard University Press, 1987 4to (28,5 cm), xxxviii, 805 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Meletij Smotryc'kyj (ca. 1577-1633), a man of great learning and wide cultural horizons, was one of the outstanding figures of the cultural revival in the Ukrainian and Belorussian lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. First as a staunch advocate of Orthodoxy and then after 1627 as an equally ardent defender of the Uniates, Smotryc'kyj wrote numerous polemical, homiletic, philological, and theological works that well illustrate the complexity of the intense confessional and cultural competition between Catholics, Protestants, and Orthodox. This volume reproduces in facsimile the original printed editions of eleven of his most important religious writings, beginning with the famous Threnos (1610) and concluding with Exaethesis (1629). The Introduction by David Frick surveys the controversial details of Smotryc’kyj’s… Leer más