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Information × Registration Number 0224U032246, 0123U103657 , R & D reports Title The Return of Catholic and Reformative Literature: Literary and Cultural Links of Ukraine with Western Europe in the Early Modern Period (XVI–XVII centuries) popup.stage_title Head Tkachuk Ruslan F., Доктор філологічних наук Registration Date 20-08-2024 Organization Tkachuk Ruslan F. popup.description2  The object of the study is the little-known works of Ukrainian Catholic and reformist polemicists of the 17th century, printed in Old Polish and Latin languages. The purpose of the work is to return to the history of national literature the works of Ukrainian scribes of the Catholic and reformist direction of the XVI-XVII centuries, to carry out a thorough analysis of the surviving polemical works in the context of church-social relations and literary practices of that time. Research methods are cultural-historical, comparative-historical, descriptive, functional-communicative, rhetorical, textological, hermeneutic, biographical, discursive. Complex use of scientific methods made it possible to cover a wide range of literary, historical and theological issues. The following research tasks were solved in the work: the peculiarities of the compositional and content organization of the polemical work of Teodor Skumynovych and Meletiy Smotrytskyy were investigated in the context of the inter-confessional dispute of the second half of the 16th - the first half of the 17th centuries. in Ukraine; techniques of argumentation studied and applied by Teodor Skumynovich and Meletiy Smotrytskyy; methods of interpreting biblical texts are described; the authenticity of the quotations given by the polemicist from the Holy Scriptures, works of church teachers was verified; the entry of Ukrainian writing into the polemical discourse of the church literature of Western and Central Europe is traced. The results of the research made it possible to obtain fundamentally new information about the little-known works of Ukrainian Catholic and reformist polemicists, which had a significant impact on the history of Ukrainian polemical literature and the cultural life of the 17th century. Product Description popup.authors Tkachuk Ruslan F. popup.nrat_date 2024-08-20 Close