Table of Contents

Foreword Preface 1. Ukraine between East and West 2. Byzantium and the Slavs 3. Religious Missions Seen from Byzantium: The Imperial Pattern and its Local Variants 4. The Christianization of Kyivan Rus' 5. Rival and Epigone of Kyiv: The Vladimir-Suzdal' Principality 6. The Policy of the Byzantine Patriarchate in Eastern Europe in the Fourteenth Century 7. Byzantium and the East Slavs after 1453 8. Poland in Ukrainian History 9. The Rebirth of the Rus' Faith 10. Religious Polemical Literature in the Ukrainian and Belarus' Lands in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries 11. The Many Worlds of Petro Mohyla 12. The Rise of National Identity to 1700 Chronological Tables Index

About the Author

Ihor Sevcenko (1922-2009) was the Dumbarton Oaks Professor Emeritus of Byzantine History and Literature. Born in Poland, he studied at Prague's Charles University and the Catholic University of Louvain and was a member of Henri Gregoire's seminar in Byzantine history in Brussels. Dr. Sevcenko taught and conducted research at many institutions, including the College de France, the universities of Cologne, Munich, Oxford, Michigan, and California (Berkeley), and Columbia University. Long associated with Dumbarton Oaks, where he served as the director of studies, he became the professor of Byzantine history and literature at Harvard University's Department of Classics in 1973 and served as the acting director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard. Dr. Sevcenko was the honorary president of the International Association of Byzantine Studies and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Natio Frank E. Sysyn is Director of the Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research at CIUS Press and Editor-in-Chief of the Hrushevsky Translation Project. He is a co-editor of Culture, Nation and Identity: The Ukrainian-Russian Encounter, 1600-1945 (2003), the author of Between Poland and Ukraine: The Dilemma of Adam Kysil, 1600-1653 (1985), and Mykhailo Hrushevsky: Historian and National Awakener (2001).