Intellectuals in the Orthodox Monasteries at the Turn of the 17th Century

Abstract

Towards the end of the 16th century, Slavic lands see the appearance of a distinctly new kind of men of letters: these were intellectuals who centered their activity around the monastery which came to shelter a school, an academy, a library and a typography. The author's approach to the study of this phenomenon is based on a thorough analysis of the mechanism of cultural adoptions, of personal, confessional, national and linguistic identity, and also on the idea of the translation of knowledge through religious and literary texts that took place between the South Russian, Western Russian and Muscovite men of letters under the influence of the baroque intellectual culture coming from the West.