Title of the article:

ON THE HISTORY OF ORTHODOX PREACHING IN POLISH-LITHUANIAN COMMONWEALTH
AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 17th CENTURY: SOURCES OF LEONTIJ KARPOVYČ’S “KAZANIE NA POGRZEBIE” (VILNO 1619)

Author(s):

Margarita A. Korzo

Information about the author/authors

Margarita A. Korzo — PhD in History, Senior Researcher, RAS Institute of Philosophy, Goncharnaya St. 12/1, 109240 Moscow, Russia.

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6299-5187

E-mail: korzor@zmail.ru

Section

Theory and history of culture

Year

2023

Volume

Vol. 70

Pages

pp. 38–51

Received

November 25, 2022

Approved after reviewing

December 28, 2022

Date of publication

December 25, 2023

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37816/2073-9567-2023-70-38-51

Index UDK

2/25/9/821.162.1

Index BBK

86.372-4

Abstract

The author’s Orthodox sermon became widespread in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth only at the turn of the 17th century. The first published sermons on the occasion of church weddings and funerals, as well as the so-called “materia” or thesis plans for the compilations of sermons, belong to this period. The book heritage of the Archimandrite of Vilnius Brotherhood monastery, Leontij Karpovyč (ca. 1580 –1620), is one of the noteworthy examples of combining patristic traditions of exegetic homiletics with imitation of Polish models of thematic preaching. The paper explores the sources of Karpovyč’s funeral homily “Kazanie na pogrzebie” on the occasion of the funeral of Prince V. Golitsyn (pronounced in “prostaya mova”, published in Polish). The study aims to reconstruct the intellectual resource of the sermon on the basis of the given by Karpovyč references and quotations and to outline the main sources of the text, including biblical fragments. This analysis helps to find out the reading circle of Orthodox intellectuals associated with the Vilnius Brotherhood monastery and to identify out the elements of similarity of the sources of their erudition with the curriculum of non-Orthodox educational institutions, as well as the degree to which Orthodox author had mastered the Polish literary tradition.

Keywords

Orthodox tradition, sermon, funeral teaching, Leontij Karpovyč, 17th Century, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

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