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EXC 212 B2-4 - "THE UKRAINIAN BASTION" – THE BULWARK OF EUROPE AND ANTEMURALE CHRISTIANITATIS. THE NATIONALISATION OF A MYTH

Basic data for this project

Type of project: Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted at University of Münster
Duration at the University of Münster: 01/11/2012 - 31/12/2018 | 2nd Funding period

Description

The study investigates the origin, development and the modern instrumentalisation, in regard to both religion and politics, of the myth ofantemurale christianitatisin Ukrainian history and its present state. The underlying proposition is that today, “Christian bastion” describes a political myth which evolved from Ukraine’s complex marginality and which, as an explanatory and legitimation strategy, has considerably contributed to the formation of the Ukrainian national self-conception. The project traces how the late medieval notion of anantemurale christianitatischanged to a political myth in the Ukrainian region in the course of its historical development; a myth which, in the middle of the 19th century, started to turn into a central component ofnation building.

Keywords: ukrainische Bastion; Vormauer Europas; antemurale christianitatis
Website of the project: https://www.uni-muenster.de/Religion-und-Politik/forschung/projekte/b2-4.html
Funder / funding scheme: 
  • DFG - Cluster of Excellence (EXC)

Project management at the University of Münster

Berezhnaya, Liliya
Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics"

Applicants from the University of Münster

Berezhnaya, Liliya
Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics"

Projects of the previous funding period

EXC 212 B15 - "The Ukrainian Bastion" – the Bulwark of Europe and antemurale christianitis. The Nationalisation of a Myth
Duration: 01/09/2009 - 31/10/2012 | 1st Funding period
Funded by: DFG - Cluster of Excellence
Type of project: Subproject in DFG-joint project hosted at University of Münster

Related main project

EXC 212 - Religion and Politics in Pre-Modern and Modern Cultures
Duration: 01/11/2012 - 31/12/2018 | 2nd Funding period
Funded by: DFG - Cluster of Excellence
Type of project: Main DFG-project hosted at University of Münster

Publications of the University of Münster resulting from the project

Як намалювати ворога? ‚Свої’ і ‚чужі’ в ранньомодерній українській іконографії [Wie man einen Feind malt. ‚Eigene’ und ‚Fremde’ in der frühneuezeitlichen ukrainischen Ikonographie]
Бережна Лілія (2012)
In: Довга Лариса та ін. (eds.), Theatrum humanae vitae, Festschrift zum 70. Geburtstag von Natalia Jakovenko, 472-488. Kyiv: Laurus.
Research article (book contribution) | Published
Imago hostis: Friends and Foes in Ruthenian and Russian Printmaking (Mid-Seventeenth–Beginning of the Eighteenth Centuries)
Berezhnaya Liliya (2012)
In: Plokhy Serhii (eds.), Poltava 1709. The Battle and The Myth (Reprint: Harvard Ukrainian Studies, Vol. 31 (2009-2010)) , 309-354. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Research article (book contribution) | Peer reviewed | Published
A View from the Edge: Borderland Studies and Ukraine, 1991–2013
Berezhnaya, Liliya (2016)
In: Plokhy Serhii (eds.), The Future of the Past: New Perspectives on Ukrainian History (Reprint: Harvard Ukrainian Studies, Vol. 34 (2015-2016)) , 43-68. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Research article (book contribution) | Peer reviewed | Published
Bastions of Faith in the Oceans of Ambiguities: Monasteries in the East European Borderlands (Late Nineteenth–Beginning of the Twentieth Century)
Berezhnaya Liliya (2019)
In: Berezhnaya Liliya, Hein-Kircher Heidi (eds.), Rampart Nations: Bulwark Myths of East European Multiconfessional Societies in the Age of Nationalism, 146-185. New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books.
Research article (book contribution) | Peer reviewed | Published
Rampart Nations: Bulwark Myths of East European Multiconfessional Societies in the Age of Nationalism
Berezhnaya, Liliya, Hein-Kircher Heidi (eds.) (2022)
New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books.
Book (edited collection) | Published
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