The Religiosæ Kijovienses Cryptæ by Johannes Herbinius (1675): A Description of Kyiv and Its «Sacral Space» in Early Modern Multiconfessional Discourse (англ.)

CONTENTS
List of illustrations ............................................................................................... 9
Introduction .........................................................................................................11
Chapter 1. Johannes Herbinius and Religiosæ Kijovienses Cryptæ ................. 25
Johannes Herbinius: biography and the intellectual horizons of his personality... 25
The Religiosæ Kijovienses Cryptæ: appearance and internal characteristics .... 41
Chapter 2. Ruthenian lands, people, and language ......................................... 51
Knowledge about Eastern Slavdom in Western European writings
of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries ..................................................... 51
The people, history, and geography of Eastern Slavdom ................................... 53
Ruthenians, Slavic languages, and culture ......................................................... 63
Chapter 3. The Kyiv monastic caves ................................................................ 69
The Kyiv caves, their saints and relics: a historical overview ........................... 69
The maps and physical characteristics of the Kyiv caves .................................. 75
The history and use of the Kyiv caves ............................................................... 80
Chapter 4. The Orthodox Church .................................................................... 89
The Orthodox and Protestant Churches in theological dialogue:
a historical overview up until the middle of the seventeenth century ........... 89
The dogma of the Orthodox Church .................................................................. 94
Church customs, confessional views, and canonical law
of the Orthodox Church ................................................................................. 99
The Eastern rite, sacraments, and piety ........................................................... 101
Monastic life and the Orthodox clergy ............................................................ 105
Chapter 5. The Orthodox saints and relics .....................................................111
The historical and theological outline of the problem ......................................111
Saints ................................................................................................................ 121
Relics and their miracles .................................................................................. 128
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Chapter 6. The reception of the book in the mid-seventeenth through
to the nineteenth century ............................................................................. 137
The book’s reception by the German intellectual milieu ................................. 137
Reception of the book in Eastern Europe ........................................................ 143
Conclusions ...................................................................................................... 153
Резюме ............................................................................................................. 159
Bibliography .................................................................................................... 163
Indexes ............................................................................................................. 181