The Cossacks and Religion in Early Modern Ukraine

by Serhii Plokhy

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.

Genres: History, Ukraine

422 pages, Hardcover

First published January 17, 2001

About the author

Serhii Plokhy is a Ukrainian and American historian. Plokhy is currently the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History and Director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University, where he was also named Walter Channing Cabot Fellow in 2013. 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.

For his Ukrainian-language profile, please see: Сергій Плохій

Reviews

[Anton Beznosykov]

Дуже якісна розвідка про генезу козацтва як явища цілком у дусі тодішньої Европи, яке пройшло кілька етапів розвитку, постійно модернізуючись та шукаючи аргументів для власної леґітимації.

[Mykyta Kuzmenko]

Важлива книга для розуміння уявлень і процесів ранньомодерного часу на українських землях.