EUROPEAN CONTEXT OF UKRAINIAN CULTURE AND POLISH-UKRAINIAN POETS OF THE LATE 16TH-EARLY 17TH CENTURY

Abstract

The article explores the ways of forming the European dimensions of Ukrainian culture in the context of analyzing the activities of Polish-Ukrainian poets of the late 16th-early 17th centuries. The content and manifestations of cultural interactions and communications on the Polish-Ruthenian borderland are characterized, one of the most striking results of which was the integration of the highly educated Rus' community with the world of European culture. The mutual influences of Ukrainian and Western European cultures acquire a vivid expression at the turn of the 16th-17th centuries, when Renaissance ideas spread in synthesis with Orthodox consciousness in the Rus' lands, national identity was created, and European contexts of cultural life were established. A clear sign of the existence of a cultural environment on the Polish-Ruthenian borderland was multilingualism. An essential prerequisite for the formation of a cultural environment on the Ruthenian lands was the activity of cultural and educational centers and literary and intellectual communities, whose participants demonstrated high standards of education and knowledge, openness to European culture (Ostrozh Cultural and Educational Center, Zamoyski Academy). The Latin-language poetry of Polish-Ukrainian poets of the late 16th – early 17th centuries. is characterized as a way of translating Renaissance ideas on the basis of Ruthenian life, as a way of spreading the European system of values ​​in the Slavic Orthodox world. The poetic work of authors of Polish origin who lived and worked on ethnic Ruthenian lands is analyzed taking into account their influence on the formation of the space of interculturality, communicative interaction between the West and the East, the Latin and Orthodox worlds.