Oktsidentalisation of Ukrainian Culture Days of Baroque

Стаття є спробою відзначити основні точки, через які проникала в Україну європейська культура доби бароко. The article is the attempt of showing the main ways of penetration of European baroque culture in Ukraine

Latinitas i cyrillianitas. Poszukiwanie Duszy Europy

This article illustrates the axiological-conceptual categories ofCyrillianitas and Latinitas, devised by the author in order to systematize the multiform and multilingual cultural legacy of the Slavic countries. Mikołajczak recalls the main interpretative categories of the Slavic cultural-historical legacy (Slavia Latina,Slavia Orthodoxa, Slavia Orientalis, Slavia Occidentalis, Slavia Romana, Slavia Christiana, Slavia Cyrillo-Methodiana): in the author’s opinion, the Cyrillo-Methodian tra- dition shows the inadequacy of the categorizing formulas that interpret culture only from the point of view of single confessional, ethnic or institutional determinants. According to Mikołajczak, it would be more appropriate to single out categories which, without claiming to embrace all the wealth of historical reality, may integrally bring together both, the cultural and the religious levels of that experience, and at the same time may take their distance from the model of the two opposed Slaviae. Such categories instead should take the point of view of the Cyrillo-Methodian oecumene as their own in order to find what unites the Slavic countries and binds them to Europe. Mikołajczak formulates these two categories as Latinitasand Cyrillianitas. While the former is not new in scholarly literature, the latter is understood by the author to includee not only the most ancient experience of Slavic Christianity before the schism and the definitive divergence of Rome and Constantinople, but also all the subsequent phenomena that define the logos and the ethos of the culture that has developed from the seeds sown by the two brothers from Thessaloniki.This article illustrates the axiological-conceptual categories of Cyrillianitas and Latinitas, devised by the author in order to systematize the multiform and multilingual cultural legacy of the Slavic countries. Mikołajczak recalls the main interpretative categories of the Slavic cultural-historical legacy (Slavia Latina, Slavia Orthodoxa, Slavia Orientalis, Slavia Occidentalis, Slavia Romana, Slavia Christiana, Slavia Cyrillo-Methodiana): in the author’s opinion, the Cyrillo-Methodian tra- dition shows the inadequacy of the categorizing formulas that interpret culture only from the point of view of single confessional, ethnic or institutional determinants. According to Mikołajczak, it would be more appropriate to single out categories which, without claiming to embrace all the wealth of historical reality, may integrally bring together both, the cultural and the religious levels of that experience, and at the same time may take their distance from the model of the two opposed Slaviae. Such categories instead should take the point of view of the Cyrillo-Methodian oecumene as their own in order to find what unites the Slavic countries and binds them to Europe. Mikołajczak formulates these two categories as Latinitas and Cyrillianitas. While the former is not new in scholarly literature, the latter is understood by the author to includee not only the most ancient experience of Slavic Christianity before the schism and the definitive divergence of Rome and Constantinople, but also all the subsequent phenomena that define the logos and the ethos of the culture that has developed from the seeds sown by the two brothers from Thessaloniki

L\u2019eredit\ue0 latina e la sua influenza sullo sviluppo delle identit\ue0 nelle terre della Corona Polacca e del Gran Principato di Lituania (secoli XVI-XVIII)

L'articolo introduce il Forum dal titolo "L\u2019eredit\ue0 latina e la sua influenza sullo sviluppo delle identit\ue0 nelle terre della Corona Polacca e del Gran Principato di Lituania (secoli XVI-XVIII)" curato da G. Siedina. Nel Forum vengono pubblicati quattro articoli dedicati ad alcuni aspetti del retaggio linguistico, culturale, storico, letterario che la Latinitas, intesa come complesso divalori, norme, istituzioni e modi di pensiero espressi dalla lingua latina, ha avuto nelle terre della Corona Polacca e del Gran Principato di Lituania (secoli XVI-XVIII)

Glava že vsěm Biblïja. Le citazioni bibliche nell’opera di H.S. Skovoroda (1722-1794) tra tradizione slava ecclesiastica e cultura barocca

Innumerable quotations from the Bible permeate all Skovoroda\u2019s writings, and yet no systematic analysis of the philosopher\u2019s biblical quotations (or of his quotations from other ecclesiastical sources) has ever been made . In this article I isolate all the biblical quotations incorporated in the dialogue Beseda 1-ja nare\u10dennaja Observatorium (Sion), while pointing to their role as a crucial component of the spiritual meaning of the text. It is my contention that Skovoroda\u2019s use of the Bible follows the rhetorical and theological patterns already outlined by R. Picchio in his seminal works on the function of \u201cbiblical thematic clues\u201d. On the other hand, the often whimsical distribution of biblical quotations and their complicated linking with one another are to be placed in the Baroque tradition, where, as P. Lewin\u2019s studies on Ukrainian scholastic drama have successfully demonstrated, quotations from the Bible fulfilled stylistic as well as theological functions

Slavic Alphabets in Contact

The volume assembles 12 papers on the topic of Slavic Alphabets in contact situations, either contemporary or historical. Papers are in German, English, French, Russian, Ukrainian and Byelorussia

Symbole miejsca w kulturze i literaturze macedońskiej

The work concentrates on the problem of an ontological and axiological presence of the images of a place in widely -understood texts in the system of collective symbolism connected in the present and in the past with a changing area of Macedonia. The analysis is interdisciplinary in character, dealing with among others complex geographical, historical, literary and ethnographic aspects and its methodology arranges the material diachronically, providing a description of geo -cultural, socio- -identifying or artistic phenomena. Their identity is defined in contexts of topology of a physical area (especially a humanistic geography), selected theories of symbol and image, mythographic studies, ideograms of folklore and literary topics. The understanding of the very problem is more topoanalytical and environmental than political or ideological. A theoretical basis for formulating the above -mentioned hypotheses is defined by an autonomous part of the work (Abstract localization) which could serve as a universal research model on other cases of constructing geo -cultural and geo -ethnic symbolism. It covers four segments of the key issue: 1) diversification of the notion of place from the perspective of natural history, and, particularly, a humanistic one; 2) order and occurrence of symbolic images in culture (according to their various conceptions and functions); 3) presence of the symbols of place in cultural products; 4) popularization of these symbols in literary texts. In the first two, a cross -sectional approach accentuating classical Western European and American theories dominates, in the remaining ones a broader Slavish comparative perspective, including a Russian one. Many of the works cited in the above -mentioned chapters are quoted functionally in subsequent chapters of the very thesis. In the second part (Concrete localization) the attention is paid to natural and anthropogenic conditions of the formation of geo -cultural symbolism in Macedonia in the past and present (an increase in meanings in selected places). A subchapter devoted to stimuli coming from a physical geo -sphere is to emphasise the experience of a territorial community deriving from the nature of natural conditions. The next subchapter, larger and constituting the most important part of the whole study, concerns the phenomena taking place in the atmosphere, showing within its scope long transformations of a symbolic ethnography in cultural awareness of Macedonians and external observers of the Balkan area. The material in this part is rich in arguments in favour of the existence of a compact imaginative complex based on numerous detailed data from the field of material and spiritual culture of various epochs. As a supplement appears here a vital exemplification (Three symbolic horizons), giving an image of an ethno -semantic production of values in three main places/towns of national memory, Salonica, Ochrid and Skopje. Descriptions of Macedonian maps of a “microcosm imagined” close with a presentation of ideological and formal uses of attributes and roles of a locative universe of symbols in Macedonian literature and, to a limited extent, in folklore (Topographies of words ― attributes, messages, mediations). It is an extended, initial skeleton of problems (selected examples mainly in footnotes) which requires a continuation in another work in the future. Despite difficulties in creating a fixed and systematic catalogue of references to the category of place (too many examples, fickleness of valuing and composition of the community of users, etc.) it is possible to define social (discursive and psychological) as well as esthetic functions of historically reinforced images. The scope of their appearance in Macedonian area is presented in this work by means of a division into geosophic symbols, existential genesis and the ones of a cultural area. In geo -sphere selected loci develop with time in centres of symbolic influence fulfilling various functions as localizations with the objects: integration of collective identity, valorization of national tradition, spacious orientation, visualization of colloquial experience and construction of emotive matrices of imagination. What is striking is a predominance of collective affective images over a natural geometric analysis of the environment, which is connected with the need to codify generative experiences and the presence of auto -therapeutic practices in establishing national heritage. Constellations of “vital points” (symbolic zones) appear from the intention to reach, live or visit them, not an abstract vision, and become intentional subjects of affect condensation with time

The Old-Serbian culture in the categories of Latinitas and Cyrillianitas

Izabela Lis-Wielgosz, PoznańThis paper presents a definition of Old-Serbian culture in the categories of Latinitas and Cyrillianitas, and indicates, on the one hand, the problem of incoherence, difficulties in relation to, not only, one category, but also to the whole terminological repertoire. There is no concept in the repertoire which can become an unambiguous and exclusive evidence of a definite cultural system or a collection of cultural systems; on the other hand the paper is an attempt at referring these categories to a description of a specific case. The presentation of Old-Serbian culture by means of both categories shows its specific status of functioning “between”, “toward” and “over” the circles of civilisation, cultural centres and [email protected]