The invention of Tradition: Kyiv Metropolia in search of the way between Rome, Constantinople, Wittenberg, Warsaw and Moscow (1596-1720)

16世纪末18世纪初是乌克兰历史上一个特别重要的时期。受各种宗教和政治中心的影响，基辅的知识分子被迫宣布独立的乌克兰教会传统。因此，在16世纪末和整个17世纪，基辅史学、圣徒传记和论战传统的“发明”过程继续下去，然而，这一传统隐藏在特殊的修辞技巧和叙事结构背后，并被宣布为回归“古代”和原始来源。研究项目的主要目的是审查基辅等级制度对外部政治、神学和智力影响所采取的智力战略。它询问基辅的神职人员精英采取了哪些思想和做法来阐明自己的传统，哪些思想在政治宣言、辩论性、史学和圣徒传记著作中遭到驳斥或干脆被忽视。联合教会和东正教教会的平行“传统发明”为比较曾经统一的基辅都会两个部分的这一进程提供了重要材料。该项目的任务不仅是突出乌克兰教会情况的特殊性，而且将研究结果归类到泛欧洲的背景下。因此，在第二步，将询问从基辅发出的冲动是否以及在多大程度上影响了欧洲的宗教和文化中心。为了实现该项目的目标，对政治宣言、争论、历史和圣徒传记资料以及神职人员的图书馆藏品进行了五个检查级别的分析。方法论包括比较法、神学解释学方法、历史重构与解构方法、权力合法化概念等。为了在泛欧洲的背景下定位研究的结果，使用了早期现代欧洲的忏悔化、记忆场所和国家建设的概念

The period from the end of the 16th to the beginning of the 18th century is an epoch of special importance in the Ukrainian history. Influenced by various religious and political centers, Kyiv intellectuals were forced to declare an independent Ukrainian Church tradition. Thus, at the end of the 16th and throughout the 17th century continued a process of "invention" of the Kyiv historiographical, hagiographic and polemical tradition that, however, was hidden behind the special rhetorical tricks and narrative constructions and proclaimed as the return to the "ancient times" and the original sources.The main objective of the research project is to examine the intellectual strategies with which the Kyiv hierarchy reacted to the external political, theological and intellectual influences. It asks what ideas and practices were taken up by Kyiv clerical elite in order to articulate the own tradition and which ideas were refuted or simply ignored in the political declarations, polemical, historiographical and hagiographic writings. The parallel "invention of Tradition" in the United and Orthodox Churches provides an important material for comparing this process in both parts of the once-unified Kyiv Metropolia.The task of the project is not only to highlight the peculiarity of the Ukrainian ecclesiastical situation, but also to classify the results of the study into a pan-European context. Therefore, in a second step, it will be asked whether and to what extent impulses emanated from Kyiv, have influenced the European religious and cultural centers.In order to achieve the goal of the project, political declarations, polemical, historical and hagiographic sources as well as the library collections of the clergy are analyzed on five examination levels. The methodology consists of the comparative, theological-hermeneutic methods, historical reconstruction and deconstruction, and the concept of the legitimation of power. In order to locate the results of the study in a pan-European context, the concepts of confessionalization, places of memory and nation building in early modern Europe are used