Valerii Zema: “Edificatory Prose of the Kyivan Metropolitanate between the Union of Florence and the Union of Brest: Changes and Tradition”

Valerii Zema is research fellow, in the Institute of History of Ukraine, National Academy of Science of Ukraine, since 1999; he held fellowship at Harvard University in 2005-2006. His research interest is in religious history of East-Central Europe of the Early Modern period. V. Zema has published extensively on religious polemics in the Orthodox culture of that epoch, and several articles of him were published in reviewed journals and collective volumes. He is preparing a book on "The People of the Old Testament: Jews and Anti-Jewish Sentiments in Ruthenian Lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth" as well as  the catalogue of the 15th and 16th centuries manuscripts of the Kyivan Metropolitanate.