CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2016
| Author | Sheliah, Hanna |
|---|---|
| Title | Honor, Tradition and Solidarity: Corporate Identity Formation at the Kiev-Mohyla Academy (1701-1765) |
| Summary | This thesis describes the process of shaping of corporal identity through social interaction. It focuses on the problematic relations and conflict situations in the urban society of which the Kiev-Mohyla Academy (KMA) was an active agent. I intend to show how the academics posed themselves in the local socium, what were the reactions they received from different social “others” and how these reactions affected their identity and self-fashioning. I also analyze individuals inside the university community (mainly students) and their positioning in the inner-academic hierarchy in context of the wider academic relationships. The main actors of this narrative are students, professors, city priests, monks, burghers and cossacks, all of whom lived in Kiev-Podil. The main problematic points of their interactions are separation of space, authority and legal jurisdiction in their common place of living. In this paper I look closely at the details of these problems through the materials of violent conflicts recorded in the local courts. As a result, we see how the Kiev-Mohyla Academy posed itself in its social surrounding in its attempts to legalize as a university corporation in opposition to both local authorities and the state power. |
| Supervisor | Kontler, Laszlo |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2016/sheliah_hanna.pdf |
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