The Jevanhelije ucytelnoje of Meletij Smotryc'kyi (Harvard Library of Early Ukranian Literature, Vol 2) by Meletij Smotryc'kyi, David Frick (Introduction) - 1987-01-01

Harvard University Press, 1987 4to (28,5 cm), 568 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Meletij Smotryc’kyj viewed his Homilary Gospel (Jevanhelije ucytelnoje, Vievis, 1616) as a crucial requirement for the “spiritual good” of the Ruthenian (Ukrainian-Belorussian) nation. In light of the fierce debate over the Union of Brest (1596) he saw the need for an Orthodox collection of Gospel pericopes and sermons in the vernacular to supplant reliance on Polish Catholic and Protestant postils. Thus, he translated into Ruthenian a Church Slavonic collection of sermons on the Gospels, while simultaneously introducing formal revisions that allowed the work to compete more successfully with similar Polish texts. As a result, the Homilary Gospel is important as a critical polemical text from the Catholic–Orthodox debate and also as a monument of early Ukrainian literature. This volume reproduces in facsimile the original printed edition along with three different versions of the… Read More

Ukrainian Research Institute of Harvard University, 1987. Hardcover. New. 568 pages. 11.00x8.75x1.50 inches.

Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1987. Hardcover. As New in As New dust jacket. Published in 1616, Jevanbelije is here reproduced in facsimile from the original printed edition, along with 3 versions of the Preface; with an introduction by David Frick. 552 pages, DJ in mylar sleeve. Shipping will be extra for this large heavy book; please inquire.; 8 3/4 x 11 1/4