Ivan Almes. From Prayer to Education: the History of the Reading of Monks of the Lviv Eparchy in the 17th and 18th Centuries. Lviv: UCU 2021. 588 pp. (Kyivan Christianity Series, vol. 26)

The history of reading as a cultural history of the book in early modern Ukraine has, until now, not received a full-fledged, and so interdisciplinary, treatment in historiography. There exist a whole list of research works in bibliology, source studies, history, and philology. However, their discreteness and focus on the specialized reader in summary do not allow one to see the particularities of the early modern culture of the book in the lands of the Kyivan Metropolitanate. In western historiography, the history of reading was a popular area of study from the 1990s to the start of the 2000s. But now it is not trendy and relevant to such an extent, though it remains so for the Eastern European historiography. On the example of the study of reading practices and the culture of the book, to which this monograph is dedicated, I analyzed this important part of the cultural history of Ukraine, described from the wider context of Latin and Orthodox early modern Europe.

Ivan Almes. From Prayer to Education: the History of the Reading of Monks of the Lviv Eparchy in the 17th and 18th Centuries. Lviv: UCU 2021. 588 pp. (Kyivan Christianity Series, vol. 26).