CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2017
| Author | Pavlish, Bogdan |
|---|---|
| Title | Confessionalization from below: the Dormition Confraternity at the Forefront of Orthodox Confession Building in Early Modern Lviv |
| Summary | The main argument of this thesis is that the process of confession-building in the Orthodox church of Poland-Lithuania was to a large extent initiated and supported by the movement of confraternities of lay people with the Lviv Dormition confraternity at the head. The communal model of confessionalization is employed as a theoretical framework of the research. Drawing on published and archival documents of the confraternity, mainly its correspondence with ecclesiastical authorities of the Orthodox Church, the thesis aims to reconstruct confraternity's contribution to the processes of social disciplining and confessional identity-formation within the Ruthenian Orthodox community at the turn of the seventeenth century. The research focuses on the confraternity's role in disciplining local Orthodox clergy and laity in line with the confessional principles. It is also argued that the confraternity itself took an active part in shaping Orthodox confessional ideology in the Ruthenian church. Though the focus of the thesis is the Orthodox (both clerical and laic) community of Lviv between the 1580s and 1600s, it inevitably zooms out both geographically and chronologically due to the confraternity's extensive involvement in wider confessional processes. |
| Supervisor | Riedl, Matthias; Hennings, Jan; |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2017/pavlish_bogdan.pdf |
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