Summary
"In early modern period, the long-lived rift between Catholicism and Orthodoxy was overbridged by the Union of Brest (1596): it established the Uniate Church in the region reaching from Lithuania through Poland and Belarus to Ukraine, and it was the basis for the development of local monastic structures, the Basilians. While the research on Uniate and Basilian literacy, significantly underrepresented in an international discourse on post-Tridentine Christianity and its culture, is interested mostly in Basilian book and printing history, BasInCult pursues for the first time a detailed and qualitative analysis of the writings about the saints and candidates to sanctity (hagiography), who had a programmatic and symbolic meaning, in a wide spectrum of literary forms created and circulated in the 17th and 18th centuries. It is argued that the Uniates and Basilians used hagiographic sources not only to adapt Uniate Church to the framework of the Catholic culture, but especially to include their issues in the mainstream of Catholic discourse. Focusing on the instructive examples of saint figures (e.g. Josaphat Kuntsevych), works (e.g. ""Menologium bazyliańskie""), and hagiographers who served also as Order’s officials (Ignacy Kulczyński), the project demonstrates the strategies of such a mutual adaption process (regarded as inculturation) which had a vast impact on shaping the confessional and cultural landscape of today’s central-eastern Europe. The project will be affiliated at Vilnius University, in an exceptional environment of the specialists in Uniate history and Basilian monasticism; in addition, it will be carried out close to the text sources held in a great part in Vilnius, one of the main centres of Basilian activities. The results will be published in an article and a short book monograph which will both aim at popularising the project’s topic and themes."
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| Web resources: | https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101150950 |
| Start date: | 01-03-2025 |
| End date: | 28-02-2027 |
| Total budget - Public funding: | - 142 757,00 Euro |
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"In early modern period, the long-lived rift between Catholicism and Orthodoxy was overbridged by the Union of Brest (1596): it established the Uniate Church in the region reaching from Lithuania through Poland and Belarus to Ukraine, and it was the basis for the development of local monastic structures, the Basilians. While the research on Uniate and Basilian literacy, significantly underrepresented in an international discourse on post-Tridentine Christianity and its culture, is interested mostly in Basilian book and printing history, BasInCult pursues for the first time a detailed and qualitative analysis of the writings about the saints and candidates to sanctity (hagiography), who had a programmatic and symbolic meaning, in a wide spectrum of literary forms created and circulated in the 17th and 18th centuries. It is argued that the Uniates and Basilians used hagiographic sources not only to adapt Uniate Church to the framework of the Catholic culture, but especially to include their issues in the mainstream of Catholic discourse. Focusing on the instructive examples of saint figures (e.g. Josaphat Kuntsevych), works (e.g. ""Menologium bazyliańskie""), and hagiographers who served also as Order’s officials (Ignacy Kulczyński), the project demonstrates the strategies of such a mutual adaption process (regarded as inculturation) which had a vast impact on shaping the confessional and cultural landscape of today’s central-eastern Europe. The project will be affiliated at Vilnius University, in an exceptional environment of the specialists in Uniate history and Basilian monasticism; in addition, it will be carried out close to the text sources held in a great part in Vilnius, one of the main centres of Basilian activities. The results will be published in an article and a short book monograph which will both aim at popularising the project’s topic and themes."Status
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HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01-01Update Date
22-11-2024
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