Hrushevsky M. History of Ukraine-Rus’ (Edmonton; Toronto, 2012), vol. 6: Economic, Cultural, and National Life in the Fourteenth to Seventeenth Centuries. Edmonton, Toronto, 2012
The transitional Lithuanian-Polish period in Ukrainian history, in comparison to the period of s... more The transitional Lithuanian-Polish period in Ukrainian history, in comparison to the period of statehood in the Cossack era and the Cossack Hetmanate’s autonomous life as a state, was probably the most difficult for Hrushevsky to conceptualize. The historian found it difficult to divide the sociopolitical and economic history of the Lithuanian and Polish states into Ukrainian (Ruthenian), Polish, and Lithuanian components; similarly difficult was distinguishing the Belarusian from the Ukrainian component in the joint cultural heritage of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Commonwealth. To this day historians strive to evaluate this common heritage that cannot be regarded as belonging to one side or the other.
Hrushevsky wrote the History during a time when, as Miroslav Hroch put it, Ukrainian national awareness was in the cultural phase of its development. Ideas about the continuity of the historical process and the integral unity of all the Ukrainian lands that Hrushevsky presented as scholarly postulates and that formed part of the research paradigms of his work became focal points of scholarly discourse. Subsequent Ukrainian historians have utilized and modified these ideas, and they continue to rework them in creative ways.126 In central and eastern Europe, the era of ‘national’ historiography during which the History was written has passed. Nonetheless, for historians the work of Hrushevsky, especially the sixth volume published here, has remained not only an accomplishment of distinguished erudition and professional scholarship but also a source of intellectual inspiration, structure, and hypotheses,
as well as a master narrative of social, cultural, religious, and national history. One cannot imagine the intellectual underpinnings of scholars today studying the late medieval and early modern history of Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, and Poland without the History of Ukraine-Rus'. Both the reception and the critique of Hrushevsky’s conceptions have been of great and continuing importance in fostering deeper and broader analysis of the critical, transitional period in Ukrainian history that was the Lithuanian and Polish era.
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Ukrainian lands with the designation of towns governed by the Magdeburg law and a catalog of towns in the Ruthenian and Belz voivodeships. The maps were made in several chronological time frames (1434, 1650, 1772, and 1772–93) within the administrative and territorial units of the Polish Kingdom (from 1569, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth). The publication consists of a catalog of towns governed by the Magdeburg law with the following headings: 1. Historical name(s); 2. County; 3. First mention under town status (year); 4. Source; 5. Location privilege (year); 6. Source; 7. Renewed location privilege (year); 8. Source; 9. First mention of settlement (year); 10. Source; 11. Modern name; 12. Current status of settlement; 13. Modern administrative subordination; 14. Site specified on location privilege; 15. Form of ownership; 16. Type of location privilege; 17. Notes.
The article deals with the urban and demographic development of the Lviv in the late medieval and early modern times.
Most of the Ukrainians who owned property at Ruska Street were merchants. They gathered capital to reinforce the legal position of the Ukrainian community, marked by privileges, accorded constructions and the reconstruction of the church in Ruska Street. Almost all artisans arriving in Lviv rented workshops in the suburbs, and only the richest were able to buy houses in Ruska Street.
The legal and economic subsoil of the Ukrainian community of Ruska Street facilitated
successful reforms in community life in the 16th century, when the famous Dormition brotherhood in 1586 was reorganized on new principles. The brotherhood initiated many successful reforms in the cultural and educational life of the Ukrainian community in many Ukrainian and Belorussian lands.
The goal of this volume is to investigate examples of transcultural communication processes in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania as well as in the eastern territories of the Polish Crown in the late Middle Ages and early modern period. The essays focus on interconfessional contacts, trans- and supraconfessional interactions, and hybrid, heterogenous developments. In addition, fi elds of east Slavic, Ruthenian, Polish, Lithuanian, Armenian, as well as Orthodox, Uniate, Catholic, Jewish, and Frankist history, which might seem at fi rst glance isolated from interethnic or interconfessional fields of interaction, will be examined anew. The volume presents the work of international specialists on nobility, city, Church and clergy, liturgy, hymnography, as well as painting, and it offers insight into the respective research workshops.
Ukrainian historian, specialist in ancillary studies, archaeographer, doctor of historical sciences, professor, and head of the Lviv Branch of the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Institute of Ukrainian Archeography and Source Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU). The scholar’s anniversary is a good opportunity to sum up the results of over 25 years of his scholarly work.
У збірнику вміщені статті українських і польських істориків, які розкривають просторові (реальні й символічні) аспекти історії Львова XIII–XX століть. В основу збірника покладено матеріали XII Міжнародної наукової конференції „Львів: місто – суспільство – культура”, що відбулась у Львівському національному університеті імені Івана Франка і Центрі міської історії Центрально-Східної Європи 29–31 травня 2014 р. Статті друкуються українською і польською мовами.
Lviv: city – society – culture: Collection of scientific papers. Lviv: Ivan Franko Lviv National University, 2016. Volume 10: Lviv / Lwów / Lemberg as urban spaces: imagination, experiences, practices / Edited by O. Arkusha, O. Vinnychenko, M. Mudryi. Part 1 [Visnyk of the Lviv University. Series History. Special issue’2016]. 396 p.
The journal includes articles of Ukrainian and Polish historians,which reveal the spatial (real and symbolic) aspects of Lviv history in the XIII–XXth centuries. The basis of the collection is comprised of the materials of XIIth International scientific conference „Lviv: city – society – culture”, which was held at the Ivan Franko National National University of Lviv and the Center for Urban history of East Central Europe in 29–31 May 2014. Articles are published in Ukrainian and Polish languages.
Papers by Myron Kapral
Ukrainian lands with the designation of towns governed by the Magdeburg law and a catalog of towns in the Ruthenian and Belz voivodeships. The maps were made in several chronological time frames (1434, 1650, 1772, and 1772–93) within the administrative and territorial units of the Polish Kingdom (from 1569, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth). The publication consists of a catalog of towns governed by the Magdeburg law with the following headings: 1. Historical name(s); 2. County; 3. First mention under town status (year); 4. Source; 5. Location privilege (year); 6. Source; 7. Renewed location privilege (year); 8. Source; 9. First mention of settlement (year); 10. Source; 11. Modern name; 12. Current status of settlement; 13. Modern administrative subordination; 14. Site specified on location privilege; 15. Form of ownership; 16. Type of location privilege; 17. Notes.
The article deals with the urban and demographic development of the Lviv in the late medieval and early modern times.
Most of the Ukrainians who owned property at Ruska Street were merchants. They gathered capital to reinforce the legal position of the Ukrainian community, marked by privileges, accorded constructions and the reconstruction of the church in Ruska Street. Almost all artisans arriving in Lviv rented workshops in the suburbs, and only the richest were able to buy houses in Ruska Street.
The legal and economic subsoil of the Ukrainian community of Ruska Street facilitated
successful reforms in community life in the 16th century, when the famous Dormition brotherhood in 1586 was reorganized on new principles. The brotherhood initiated many successful reforms in the cultural and educational life of the Ukrainian community in many Ukrainian and Belorussian lands.
The goal of this volume is to investigate examples of transcultural communication processes in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania as well as in the eastern territories of the Polish Crown in the late Middle Ages and early modern period. The essays focus on interconfessional contacts, trans- and supraconfessional interactions, and hybrid, heterogenous developments. In addition, fi elds of east Slavic, Ruthenian, Polish, Lithuanian, Armenian, as well as Orthodox, Uniate, Catholic, Jewish, and Frankist history, which might seem at fi rst glance isolated from interethnic or interconfessional fields of interaction, will be examined anew. The volume presents the work of international specialists on nobility, city, Church and clergy, liturgy, hymnography, as well as painting, and it offers insight into the respective research workshops.
Ukrainian historian, specialist in ancillary studies, archaeographer, doctor of historical sciences, professor, and head of the Lviv Branch of the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Institute of Ukrainian Archeography and Source Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU). The scholar’s anniversary is a good opportunity to sum up the results of over 25 years of his scholarly work.
У збірнику вміщені статті українських і польських істориків, які розкривають просторові (реальні й символічні) аспекти історії Львова XIII–XX століть. В основу збірника покладено матеріали XII Міжнародної наукової конференції „Львів: місто – суспільство – культура”, що відбулась у Львівському національному університеті імені Івана Франка і Центрі міської історії Центрально-Східної Європи 29–31 травня 2014 р. Статті друкуються українською і польською мовами.
Lviv: city – society – culture: Collection of scientific papers. Lviv: Ivan Franko Lviv National University, 2016. Volume 10: Lviv / Lwów / Lemberg as urban spaces: imagination, experiences, practices / Edited by O. Arkusha, O. Vinnychenko, M. Mudryi. Part 1 [Visnyk of the Lviv University. Series History. Special issue’2016]. 396 p.
The journal includes articles of Ukrainian and Polish historians,which reveal the spatial (real and symbolic) aspects of Lviv history in the XIII–XXth centuries. The basis of the collection is comprised of the materials of XIIth International scientific conference „Lviv: city – society – culture”, which was held at the Ivan Franko National National University of Lviv and the Center for Urban history of East Central Europe in 29–31 May 2014. Articles are published in Ukrainian and Polish languages.
Economically, the 17th and 18th centuries saw divergent trends in the Lviv shoe environment. The guild experienced an increase in masters, specialization, and market-oriented production. Unlike other guilds, there were no limits on the number of masters, and foreign shoemakers from Germany, France, and Armenian lands contributed to the exchange of experiences. Jewish competition was effectively managed through successful pricing policies and high product quality. Social conflicts were typically resolved within the guild, and there were no instances of strikes by apprentices in the 18th century.
Despite successful development, the guild retained a traditional hierarchical system, both internally and in relations with city government and royal administration. Shoemakers did not gain access to municipal power, reflecting a lack of desire or opportunity. In the religious sphere, the trend toward secularization, common in Enlightenment-era Europe, affected Lviv's Polish and Ukrainian urban social environment. Legal disputes and conflicts with priests became more frequent, though the Baroque period also witnessed religious prosperity with the construction of many churches.
The guild's survival and resilience during the challenging circumstances of military disasters and economic decline in the 17th century were attributed to flexibility and transformation following the 1641 reform. The guild catered to diverse segments of the population, maintained low product prices, facilitated guild access, and increased the number of masters. Despite appearing archaic, conservative, and traditional, elements of the new order were present, enabling the shoemakers' guild to adapt to new realities in the 19th century and maintain a leading position among Lviv crafts in subsequent historical periods.
Despite the absence of a centralized power in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the borderland status of Ruthenian territory, and waves of immigration, no single language achieved absolute cultural and linguistic unification. Lviv's unique character demanded linguistic versatility among its inhabitants, ranging from Polish at court to Ruthenian at suburban markets and Turkish or German in international trade. The Jewish community, however, remained distinct in its non-participation in cultural and linguistic exchanges.
The coexistence of "high" and "low" culture in Lviv reflected the medieval and early modern worldview, where sacred and vernacular languages played distinct roles for various communities. While this cultural diversity enriched the city, it also posed challenges, as some languages thrived while others left only traces in written documents and material artifacts, emphasizing the intricate linguistic and cultural tapestry of Lviv throughout the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period.
cartographic works: Yurii Honek, ihor Dykyi, stepan Yamelynets english translation: Marta skorupsky literary editor of the atlas natalia kit additional funding was provided by the Zhydachiv city Council, the Ukrainian studies Fund (Usa) cover illustration: panoramic view of Zhydachiv, 2019
The article deals with the history of the Ukrainian city Zhydachiv in the Magdeburg period of its development, since the end of the 14th century to the end of the 18th century.
The article deals with the historical and urban development of the Ukrainian city Zhovkva since its foundation to the end of the 18th century.
The article deals with the history of the Ukrainian city Halych during the modern period in demographic and urban relations.
The article deals with the process of receiving the Magdeburg Law of the Ukrainian Lviv in the medieval period.
Key words: Danylo Dazhbohovych Zaderevetskyi, Ukrainian gentry, the Danylovychs, land estates, Cyrillic diploma
Hrushevsky’s narrative draws from an exhaustive examination of scholarly literature on the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Poland as it relates to the Ukrainian territories. His careful examination of sources, especially legal codes and taxation records (many of which had been published under his editorship), and discussion of historical terms explore the complex relations of diverse strata of the population. Although he focuses on the Ruthenian-Ukrainian population, he also deals with other ethnic groups (Poles, Jews, Armenians, and Lithuanians). In comparing developments in the Ukrainian lands under Lithuania with those under Poland, the historian highlights differences in governance and society, which remained even after the Union of Lublin (1569). He is especially critical of the consequences of adopting the model of Polish nobiliary society, including the subjugation of the peasantry and the decline of cities. After tracing the evolution of the structures of the Orthodox Church, he examines the genesis of the Uniate Church at the Union of Brest (1596), an event that shook the foundations of Ukrainian society. In sum this volume, together with volumes 4 and 6, gives the first complete academic examination of Ukraine between what Hrushevsky saw as the fall of princely Rus' and the rebirth of the Cossack age. Hrushevsky’s dedication to the study of the popular masses allowed him to trace the continuities of Ukrainian history in a time of statelessness and the alienation of elites.
Hrushevsky wrote the History during a time when, as Miroslav Hroch put it, Ukrainian national awareness was in the cultural phase of its development. Ideas about the continuity of the historical process and the integral unity of all the Ukrainian lands that Hrushevsky presented as scholarly postulates and that formed part of the research paradigms of his work became focal points of scholarly discourse. Subsequent Ukrainian historians have utilized and modified these ideas, and they continue to rework them in creative ways.126 In central and eastern Europe, the era of ‘national’ historiography during which the History was written has passed. Nonetheless, for historians the work of Hrushevsky, especially the sixth volume published here, has remained not only an accomplishment of distinguished erudition and professional scholarship but also a source of intellectual inspiration, structure, and hypotheses,
as well as a master narrative of social, cultural, religious, and national history. One cannot imagine the intellectual underpinnings of scholars today studying the late medieval and early modern history of Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, and Poland without the History of Ukraine-Rus'. Both the reception and the critique of Hrushevsky’s conceptions have been of great and continuing importance in fostering deeper and broader analysis of the critical, transitional period in Ukrainian history that was the Lithuanian and Polish era.
The notes of Martin Gruneweg are the oldest descriptions of Lvov handed down to our days. In L’viv he lived from his 20th until his 40th birthday in the years 1682 to 1602, what marked the greatest development of this town. At that time L’viv was a good example of a very complicated and sensitive structure of various ethnics, confessions and traditions, which lived together.
The Town Hall was the venue for all administrative, judicial, financial, and miscellaneous functions of the city councilors. Only Gdańsk, as the most developed urban center of the region with the most complex unctionality, concentrated solely administrative and representative functions at the Town Hall (while others were placed in additional prestigious buildings close to the city’s center). No ethnic and religious communities, craft guilds, and other institutions of urban life could create competitive
centers of socialization beside the Town Hall.
На прикладі цього твору простежується синтез місцевої української традиції із західним впливом у мелодиці, ритмі, пісенних інтонаціях, що стало виявом загальної тенденції розвитку української культури в час європейського бароко. У XVIII ст. – на початку ХХ ст. колядка “Радуйтеся вси людіе” поширюється у списках і редакціях та в друкованому вигляді. У її тексті відбуваються трансформації, створюються нові мелодії та музичні обробки твору. Про “живий” характер цієї духовної пісні свідчать музичні експерименти, до яких вдаються сучасні виконавці.
Ключові слова: духовна пісня, колядка “Радуйтеся вси людіе”, історія музики, Богоявленське братство Львова