Latin Books and the Eastern Orthodox Clerical Elite in Kiev, 1632-1780

Latin Books and the Eastern Orthodox Clerical Elite in Kiev, 1632-1780
Author: Liudmila V. Charipova
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2006-09-19
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780719072963


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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.