Calling all UK-based graduate students and scholars in medieval history and culture: Cambridge Ukrainian Studies, a programme of the Department of Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge, is hosting a workshop entitled Latini—Graeci—Rutheni.

The workshop will take place on Friday 10 March 2016 from 11am to 3pm at Bentley Room, Pitt Building, University of Cambridge, CB2 1RP. 

Led by Dr Yury P. Avvakumov from the University of Notre Dame, USA, this year’s workshop will explore Medieval and Early Modern religious identities by focusing on the clashes over issues of ritual between Latins, Greeks, and Ruthenians. These clashes, along with the dogmatic controversies on the procession of the Holy Spirit, purgatory, and papal primacy, determined the history of relations between Latin-rite and Byzantine-rite Christians from the mid-eleventh to the mid-seventeenth century. During this period, certain religious and cultural patterns display remarkable continuities. By exploring such continuities, this workshop will provide a deeper understanding of the Union of Brest 1596, considered both as idea and as reality.

The event is free but online registration is required. Register here by Wednesday, 8 March 2017

Participants may apply for reimbursement of costs for domestic economy train/coach travel to and from Cambridge. To apply for reimbursement, please send a brief CV and 2-5-sentence statement of interest to Miss Olga Płócienniczak, Department of Slavonic Studies, University of Cambridge, at slavon@hermes.cam.ac.uk by Wednesday, 8 March 2017. 

Coffee, lunch and refreshments will be served during the workshop.

Recommended Workshop Readings

The listed primary sources and secondary readings are recommended but not obligatory for participation in the workshop.

Primary sources:

• ‘Artykuly do ziednoczenia s Kosciolem Rzymskim naležące’ / ‘Articuli as unionem cum Ecclesia Romana pertinentes’, in Documenta unionis Berestensis eiusque auctorum (1590-1600), coll. A. G. Welykyj (Rome 1970), pp. 61-75; English translation in: Borys A. Gudziak, Crisis and Reform. The Kyivan Metropolitanate, the Patriarchate of Constantinople, and the Genesis of the Union of Brest (Cambridge MA: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2001), pp. 264-272.
• ‘De Ruthenorum nationibus earumque erroribus scriptum Johannis de Lasco Archiepiscopi Gnesnensis in concilio Lateranensi anno 1514 productum’, in A. J. Tugenev (ed.), Historica Russiae Monumenta, tomus 4 (St. Petersburg: Eduard Pratz, 1841), pp. 123-127; English translation in: Petro B. T. Bilaniuk, The Fifth Lateran Council (1512-1517) and the Eastern Churches (Toronto: PRUT, 1975), pp. 88-96.
• ‘Михаила архіепископа Царяграда о ересехъ латыньскихъ’, in А. Павлов, Критические опыты по истории древнейшей греко-русской полемики против латинян (St. Petersburg 1878), pp. 151-157.

Secondary sources:

• Yury P. Avvakumov, ‘The Controversy over the Baptismal Formula under Pope Gregory IX’, in Martin Hinterberger and Chris Schabel (eds.), Greeks, Latins, and Intellectual History 1204-1500 (Leuven etc.: Peeters, 2011), pp. 69-84.
• Yury P. [Georgij] Avvakumov, ‘Die Fragen des Ritus als Streit- und Kontroversgegenstand. Zur Typologie der Kulturkonflikte zwischen dem lateinischen Westen und dem byzantinisch-slawischen Osten im Mittelalter und in der Neuzeit,’ in Rainer Bendel (ed.), Kirchen- und Kulturgeschichtsschreibung in Nordost- und Ostmitteleuropa. Initiativen, Methoden, Theorien (Münster: Lit Verlag, 2006), pp. 191–233.
• Petro B. T. Bilaniuk, The Fifth Lateran Council (1512-1517) and the Eastern Churches (Toronto: PRUT, 1975), pp. 134-154.
• John H. Erickson, ‘Leavened and Unleavened. Some Theological Implications of the Schism of 1054,’ St.Vladimir’s Theological Quarterly 14 (1970) 155-176.
• Borys A. Gudziak, Crisis and Reform. The Kyivan Metropolitanate, the Patriarchate of Constantinople, and the Genesis of the Union of Brest (Cambridge MA: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2001), pp. 225-230.