Testament to Ruthenian: A Linguistic Analysis of the Smotryc'kyj Variant (Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies) (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute Publications) - Hardcover

Pugh, Stefan

 
9780916458751: Testament to Ruthenian: A Linguistic Analysis of the Smotryc'kyj Variant (Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies) (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute Publications)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 091645875X ISBN 13: 9780916458751
Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1996

Synopsis

What is the Ruthenian language? A simple answer is that it was the precursor to modern Ukrainian and Belarusian. But the history and synchronic realization of this language are much more complex. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Ruthenian was the language of the Orthodox and Uniate inhabitants of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. It enjoyed a culture and prestige greater than that of its Muscovite (Russian) neighbor to the east, but was often denigrated in comparison with the dominant language―Polish―of the Commonwealth.

In Testament to Ruthenian, Stefan Pugh analyzes the Ruthenian language use of one of its most outstanding practitioners, Meletij Smotryc´kyj (ca. 1578–1633): polemicist, cleric, and scholar. This is the first study to survey comprehensively a Ruthenian speaker’s oeuvre, and it will provide the groundwork for the next generation of scholarship on the Ruthenian language.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author

Stefan M. Pugh is Reader and Chairman in the Department of Russian at the University of St Andrews, Scotland.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Publication date
1996
Language
English
ISBN 10 
091645875X
ISBN 13 
9780916458751
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
314