Intro; Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1: The Ukrainian Cossacks; 2: The Religious Crisis; 3: Warriors for the Faith; 4: Order, Religion, and Nation; 5: A War of Religion; 6: A Hetman Sent by God; 7: Hetmans and Metropolitans; 8: In Search of an Orthodox Monarch; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index
Summary
The author explores Cossack involvment in the religious struggles between Eastern Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism during the early modern period. These struggles helped shape not only Ukrainian but also Russian and Polish cultural identities
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-389) and index
