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In particular, he has been defined as a retrograde"apologist for ignorance" in contradistinction to progressive "defenders oflearning," such as Meletij Smotryc'kyj and Peter Mohyla, who in their culboth"prophet" and "apostle" P. Kuliä, htorija vossoedinenija Rust, vol. Petersburg,], pp. Picchio, "Questione della lingua eSlavia Cirillometodiana," in Studi sulla Questione della lingua presso gli Slavi, ed.
Picchio Rome, , pp. This interpretative tradition, which places great if not exclusive emphasis on VySens'kyj as the "conscience of the nation," views his writings primarily as adefence of the "national" heritage against the assaults of Counter-Reformation trends that areidentified above all with the Polish nation and its "Jesuit" culture.
Even those scholars whohave sought to give adequate consideration to confessional concerns often have had their viewsshaped by critical clichés which can be traced back to the confrontation between "Orthodox"and "Catholic" culture immediately before and after the Church Union declared at Brest in see, in this regard, D.
One might includehere a body of Soviet scholarship—largely indebted to an Orthodox historiographietradition—which regards Vyèens'kyj as one in a series of "political and social activists" who,since , have struggled to liberate the Ukrainian lands from "reactionary" Vaticaninfluence: see, for example, L. Kyzja and M. Kovalenko, Vikova borot'ba ukrajins'kohonarodu proty Vatikanu Kiev, , pp.
