Serbian National Awakening and Enlightenment as Inspired by the West Ukrainian Cultural Centres

Földvári, Sándor (2013) Serbian National Awakening and Enlightenment as Inspired by the West Ukrainian Cultural Centres. In: National question in Central Europe. Institute for Cultural Relations Policy (ICRP), Budapest, pp. 166-179. ISBN 978-615-5432-00-2

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ICRP conference proceedings: National Question in Central Europe Földvári, Sándor University of Debrecen e.mail: alexfoldvari@gmail.com URL: http://unideb.academia.edu/SandorFoldvari Serbian National Awakening and Enlightenment as Inspired by the West Ukrainian Cultural Centres - Transmitted through the Hungarian Kingdom in the 18th Century Abstract It is a false commonplace that the ideas of enlightenment and national awakening in the 18th century came to the Slavic peoples of the Habsburg Empire as a result of the impact on the cultural life made by the thinkers, artists and scientists in Vienna, whose activities were inspired and provided by the royal court, too. This statement is only partly true but not wholly. Though the West European cultural influences also political ideas came across Vienna, this was one of the ways of transmission but not the only one. In contrary, the role and importance of the contacts between the various Slavic peoples and those living in the Habsburg Empire could not be studied in the shadows of the overvaluation was given to the impacts of Vienna. Researches made by the Institute of Ukrainian Studies named Krypiakevich in Lviv in the last two-three decades, mainly the findings of Isaievich, Iaroslav Dmitrovich, member of the Academy of Sciences, who had headed this institute for fourteen years, lead to new results in the history of the typographies and book-trade as the belles-lettres as well, therefore it became necessary to rethink the contacts between the Western territories of the recent Ukraine and the Slavic peoples of the Hungarian Kingdom. On the other hand, investigations made by the author of this paper and his predecessors and masters on the old printed liturgical books of the Byzantine rite, gave enough matter to came to the conclusions the book-trade was an important factor in the transmission of the impacts of early enlightenment came from Poland across Ukraine to the Serbs living in Hungary and on the Balkans, too. Finally, the Serbian Orthodox Church as a determining factor in the national awakening was not taken into consideration as a different from the other ones, that is, the Orthodoxy was wholly regarded but not distinguishing between the Greek and Serb churches, nor the Russian and Balkan Orthodoxy as well. Consequently, the aim of this paper is to demonstrate the contacts between the Serbs and Ukrainian territories, to evidence the book-trade between these peoples and areas, and to give some new insides into the church and national relations on the Balkans.

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