The Cossacks and Religion in Early Modern Ukraine [Hardcover]

Serhii Plokhy (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0199247390 | ISBN-13: 978-0199247394 | Publication Date: January 17, 2002

Famous as ferocious warriors, the Ukrainian Cossacks developed their fighting skills in the religious wars against the Tartars, Turks, Poles, and Russians. In this fascinating study, Serhii Plokhy examines the "confessionalization" of religious life in the early modern period, showing how Cossack involvement in the religious struggle between Eastern Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism helped shape not only Ukrainian but also Russian and Polish cultural identities.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"A most impressive contribution to our knowledge in the breath of its vision and in the depth of its scholarship and deserves the widest possible readership."--Slavic Reviews

About the Author

Serhii Plokhy is an Associate Director, Peter Jacyk Centre, University of Alberta.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 416 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (January 17, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0199247390
• ISBN-13: 978-0199247394
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #157,550 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #23 in Books > History > Europe > Ukraine

More About the Author

S. M. Plokhy (Plokhii) is the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard University. A leading authority on Eastern Europe, he has lived and taught in Ukraine, Canada and the United States. He has published extensively in English, Ukrainian and Russian. For three successive years (2002-2005) his books won first prize of the American Association for Ukrainian Studies. In the fall of 2009, he was honored with the Early Slavic Studies Association Distinguished Scholarship Award. He lives with his family in Arlington, Massachusetts.