«Три дні й три ночі від того дня минуло»: проповідь Варлаама Ясинського на  Воскресіння Христове

Larysa Dovga; Oksana Sukhovii

doi:10.31649/sent44.01.091

Authors

Larysa Dovga National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2590-8261
Oksana Sukhovii Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4514-7968

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31649/sent44.01.091

Keywords:

early modern Ukrainian philosophy, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, early modern Ukrainian culture, Old Ukrainian language, manuscript, graphic and orthographic system

Abstract

This publication is the first to introduce into scientific circulation a manuscript sermon by a prominent Ukrainian thinker of the second half of the seventeenth century, Metropolitan of Kyiv, Galicia, and All Rus' Varlaam Yasynsky. The article accompanying the publication characterizes the sermon in terms of its philosophical and theological ideas, rhetorical devices, etc. Particular attention is paid to how the sermon reflects certain moral and ethical values, the importance of which Varlaam Yasinsky tried to convince his flock. A preliminary overview of the conceptual apparatus used in the text published here is also provided. A detailed description of the manuscript of sermon text is also provided. The principles of metagraphizing a manuscript text are described: the peculiarities of the transmission of letters, glosses, superscripts, punctuation marks, authorial corrections, etc. are indicated.

Author Biographies

Larysa Dovga, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy

Doctor of sciences in philosophy, Professor of the Department of Cultural Studies

Oksana Sukhovii, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

PhD in philology, Associate Professor at the Department of Ukrainian Language and Applied Linguistics

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