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4. Kelly Richman-Abdou Northern Renaissance, available at:
https://mymodernmet.com/northern-renaissance-art/.
5. Paul Veyne, editor, 1992. A History of Private Life: I From Pagan Rome to
Byzantium (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press).

Lecture V

UKRAINIAN CULTURE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE

DEVELOPMENT OF WORLD CULTURE

Plan

1. Peculiarities of culture of Ancient Rus.

2. Formation of the Ukrainian Renaissance culture.

3. Culturological issues in the Ukrainian culturological thought in the

ХІХ – beginning of the ХХth century.

4. Ukrainian culturology in the XXth century.

1. Peculiarities of Kyiv Rus culture
Kyiv Rus was one of the largest culturally developed states of medieval

Europe. Even in the pre-Christian times in Kyiv Rus, legal and moral norms were
formed, and a well-developed polytheistic (pagan) religion, writing existed.
Ancestors of Ukrainians were interested and worried about the meaning and

purpose of the cultural-historical process,laws of its development, causal
relationships, place of a human in the world and people in the history. These and
other problems were reflected in such treasures of culture as mythology, oral folk
art. The cultural outlook of the people significantly influenced the formation of

thier cusotms, rituals and traditions.
Since the end of the Xth century in Kyiv Rus, the reflection on purely
culturological issues, as a rule, was carried out in the context of the establishment

of the Christian outlook, values in general. The spiritual world of Rus was widely
enriched with the achievements of ancient culture, that were relayed by Byzantium.
It should be borne in mind that Kyiv Rus developed diplomatic, dynastic and trade

relations with many regions, in particular with the peoples of Central and Western
Europe, the Far East, South Caucasus and Transcaucasia, which objectively
contributed to the expansion of the cultural outlook of the East Slavs.

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