| Abstrakt: |
The aim of the present article is to explore reflections of the Kyiv church authors and the Cossack chroniclers of the 17th - beginning of the 18th centuries about contribution of the Cossack army into the Khotyn war of 1621. The research employs textual discourse analysis as the major methodological approach. Research novelty. Kyivan Orthodox clerics and later Cossack chroniclers, who created historical memory of the Cossack contribution into the Khotyn War 1621, suggested a rather original interpretation of these events in comparison to the other authors of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Specifically, they claimed that the Cossack army played the key role in withstanding the offensive of the Ottoman army headed by the sultan himself. Yet, the presentation of the Cossack valor in these texts was different and it changed over the 17th century. Conclusions. The initial narratives by the Kyivan church authors underlined the Orthodox identity of the Cossacks. For them, this identity was important as they struggled to get the new Orthodox hierarchy (ordained by the Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophanes in 1620) acknowledged by the king of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. When this hierarchy was finally acknowledged in 1632 by the new king Władysław IV, the narrative of the Cossack courage in the Battle of Khotyn disappeared from the important Kyivan texts up to the 1670-s. At that time, Kyivan church erudite revived the memory of this event. In this manner they contrasted the deeds of the hetman Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachnyi, "the victor of the Turks", with the politics of hetman Petro Doroshenko, who acknowledged Ottoman protection. Further on, the text by Sofonovych was fundamental in representing the role of the Cossacks in the Khotyn War 1621 in the Cossack chronicles of the 17th - beginning of the 18th centuries. Sofonovych also suggested the interpretative framework for the subsequent texts, which from now on stressed the utmost importance of the Cossack night attacks for the successful defense of the Khotyn fortress. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
