The Cambridge Postgraduate Workshop in Medieval and Early Modern Slavonic Studies Latini—Graeci—Rutheni

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• Dr Yury Avvakumov, Assistant Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
• Friday 10 March 2017, 11:00-15:00
• The Bentley Room, The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge.

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Register at CambridgeUkrainianStudies.org by Wednesday, 8 March 2017

The Cambridge Postgraduate Workshop in Medieval and Early Modern Slavonic Studies is presented by Cambridge Ukrainian Studies, an academic centre in the Department of Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge. Led by Dr Yury P. Avvakumov from the University of Notre Dame, USA , this year’s workshop will explore Medieval and Early Modern religious identities by focusing on the clashes over issues of ritual between Latins, Greeks, and Ruthenians. These clashes, along with the dogmatic controversies on the procession of the Holy Spirit, purgatory, and papal primacy, determined the history of relations between Latin-rite and Byzantine-rite Christians from the mid-eleventh to the mid-seventeenth century. During this period, certain religious and cultural patterns display remarkable continuities. By exploring such continuities, this workshop will provide a deeper understanding of the Union of Brest 1596, considered both as idea and as reality.

Dr Yury Avvakumov teaches history of Christianity in the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, IN. He specializes in the history of medieval Christianity, with a focus on Latin-Byzantine relations, and in the religious history of Ukraine and Russia of the Early Modern and Modern periods. He is also broadly engaged with history of the Byzantine-rite Catholic Churches from their medieval beginnings to the present day.

Dr Avvakumov completed his studies in Orthodox theology in St. Petersburg, Russia, and his doctorate in Catholic theology at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany. Prior to coming to Notre Dame in 2010, Prof. Avvakumov held numerous academic positions in Germany, Ukraine, and Russia, including six years at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv where he served as Dean of Humanities and the founding chair of the Department of Classical, Byzantine, and Medieval Studies. He was also a member of the Board of Theological Experts at the Patriarchal Curia of the Ukrainian Greco-Catholic Church in Kyiv, Ukraine, in 2007-2011.

Avvakumov’s publications include a monograph on the medieval controversies between Latins and Byzantines (Die Entstehung des Unionsgedankens. Die lateinische Theologie des Hochmittelalters in der Auseinandersetzung mit dem Ritus der Ostkirche. Berlin 2002), which appeared in Ukrainian translation in 2011, and an edition of the documents related to the history of Byzantine-rite Catholics in Ukraine and Russia from Ukrainian archives (Mytropolyt Andrei Sheptytskyi i hreko-katolyky v Rosiji, 1899-1917. Lviv 2004). He has also contributed numerous chapters to volumes on history of Latin, Byzantine, and Slavic Christianity, as well as articles to such scholarly journals as Ostkirchliche Studien, Una Sancta, Communicantes, Kovcheh (Lviv), Bogoslovskie Trudy (Moscow), Bohoslovja (Lviv), and others. Avvakumov’s book on the origins of the idea of church union was appraised by reviewers as a major contribution to the understanding of the relations between the Latin and the Byzantine-Slavonic Christianity.

The workshop will be led in English and all interested postgraduate students and scholars in medieval history and culture are welcome to attend. The event is free but online registration is required. Please register at CambridgeUkrainianStudies.org by Wednesday, 8 March 2017.

Participants may apply for reimbursement of costs for domestic economy train/coach travel to and from Cambridge. To apply for reimbursement, please send a brief CV and 2-5-sentence statement of interest to Miss Olga Płócienniczak, Department of Slavonic Studies, University of Cambridge, at slavon@hermes.cam.ac.uk by Wednesday, 8 March 2017. Please retain your travel receipts so that Miss Olga Płócienniczak can process your travel reimbursement.

Coffee, lunch and refreshments will be served during the workshop.

Recommended Workshop Readings The listed primary sources and secondary readings are recommended but not obligatory for participation in the workshop.

Primary sources:

• ‘Artykuly do ziednoczenia s Kosciolem Rzymskim należące’ / ‘Articuli as unionem cum Ecclesia Romana pertinentes’, in Documenta unionis Berestensis eiusque auctorum (1590-1600), coll. A. G. Welykyj (Rome 1970), pp. 61-75; English translation in: Borys A. Gudziak, Crisis and Reform. The Kyivan Metropolitanate, the Patriarchate of Constantinople, and the Genesis of the Union of Brest (Cambridge MA: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2001), pp. 264-272.
• ‘De Ruthenorum nationibus earumque erroribus scriptum Johannis de Lasco Archiepiscopi Gnesnensis in concilio Lateranensi anno 1514 productum’, in A. J. Tugenev (ed.), Historica Russiae Monumenta, tomus 4 (St. Petersburg: Eduard Pratz, 1841), pp. 123-127; English translation in: Petro B. T. Bilaniuk, The Fifth Lateran Council (1512-1517) and the Eastern Churches (Toronto: PRUT , 1975), pp. 88-96.
• ‘Михаила архіепископа Царяграда о ересехъ латыньскихъ’, in А. Павлов, Критические опыты по истории древнейшей греко-русской полемики против латинян (St. Petersburg 1878), pp. 151-157.

Secondary sources:

• Yury P. Avvakumov, ‘The Controversy over the Baptismal Formula under Pope Gregory IX’, in Martin Hinterberger and Chris Schabel (eds.), Greeks, Latins, and Intellectual History 1204-1500 (Leuven etc.: Peeters, 2011), pp. 69-84.
• Yury P. [Georgij] Avvakumov, ‘Die Fragen des Ritus als Streit- und Kontroversgegenstand. Zur Typologie der Kulturkonflikte zwischen dem lateinischen Westen und dem byzantinisch-slawischen Osten im Mittelalter und in der Neuzeit,’ in Rainer Bendel (ed.), Kirchen- und Kulturgeschichtsschreibung in Nordost- und Ostmitteleuropa. Initiativen, Methoden, Theorien (Münster: LIT Verlag, 2006), pp. 191–233.
• Petro B. T. Bilaniuk, The Fifth Lateran Council (1512-1517) and the Eastern Churches (Toronto: PRUT , 1975), pp. 134-154.
• John H. Erickson, ‘Leavened and Unleavened. Some Theological Implications of the Schism of 1054,’ St.Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly 14 (1970) 155-176.
• Borys A. Gudziak, Crisis and Reform. The Kyivan Metropolitanate, the Patriarchate of Constantinople, and the Genesis of the Union of Brest (Cambridge MA: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2001), pp. 225-230.

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