Author : Liudmila V. Charipova
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 0719072964
Latin Books and the Eastern Orthodox Clerical Elite in Kiev, 1632-1780 by Liudmila V. Charipova Pdf
Founded in 1632, the library of the Kiev Mohyla Academy went up in flames in 1780. Encompassing predominantly humanist, scholastic and homiletic titles in Latin yet placed in a heartland of Eastern Orthodox territories, the library was something of an anomaly for its time, offering East Slavic intellectuals a comprehensive introduction to Western printed matter. Those books brought along with them not only a new pattern of knowledge, but also an awareness of the diversity and multiplicity of views which the educated could hold.