"Discordia concordans" : les Ruthènes de la grande-principauté de Lituanie au temps de l'Union de Brest (milieu du XVIe siècle - milieu du XVIIe siècle) : disertacija
LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Krikščionybė; Abiejų Tautų Respublika (ATR; Rzeczpospolita Obojga Narodów; Žečpospolita; Sandrauga; Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth); Bresto unija; Christians; Union of Brest.
ENThis study on the Ruthenian community of the 16th and 17th centuries analyses the religious life of Eastern Christians of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, at the moment of the division of the Kievan metropolinate between Roman and Constantinopolitan obediences. With the example of western Lithuania (Vilnius and Trakai voivodships), which corresponded to a border area between the ecclesiastical structures of Greek and Latin rites, it proposes to explain the issues and consequences of local conflicts and negotiations, associated to the schism occurred after the Union of Brest in 1595/1596. Through a variety of sources (court archives, tax records, pastoral visits, correspondences, Roman archives, controversial treatises etc), the survey aims to situate the faithful of the Eastern rite within geographic space and social structures of this multiconfessional territory. On a smaller scale, the work also highlights the rôle of Lithuania in the general upheavals of the Ruthenian Church of this period in order to understand the differences with the soutern parts of the metropolitan diocese which was more reluctant to recognize the authority of the Pope. This "regionalization" of the history of the Union of Brest finally tries to measure the impact of religious reforms on laity and ti identify different process involved in the formation of confessional identities on the borders of Latin Christianity of the post-Tridentine era. [From the publication]
