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Historian Theodore Matskiv in His Memoirs and Correspondence
Get PDFThe article presents the memoirs of Father Yuri Mytsik about the emigrant from Galicia, the renowned emigrant historian and researcher of early modern Ukrainian history, Theodore Matskiv (1918–2011). The publication’s objective is to portray the persona of a representative from the older generation of Ukrainian scholars in the diaspora through sources of personal origin — memoirs about him and his letters to the author of the memoirs. The memoirs and correspondence shed light on Matskiv’s life journey, scholarly and civic activities, his historical perspectives, assessments of past and contemporary events. In Matskiv’s memoirs, he emerges in everyday life. Concurrently, the author draws attention to the peculiarities of the scientist’s communication with a colleague from Ukraine. Matskiv’s impressions of the atmosphere within the Dnipropetrovsk scientific community in the early years of independence are of interest. The correspondence spans over a decade. The historian’s figure is depicted in letters with a plethora of life details, academic interests, reactions to political life in independent Ukraine. Brief but eloquent characterizations of Ukrainian presidents — Leonid Kravchuk, Leonid Kuchma, Victor Yushchenko — help in understanding how diaspora members perceived these politicians. Also noteworthy is Matskiv’s genuine interest in the research of his Ukrainian colleague. The letters demonstrate the Ukrainian diaspora scientist’s familiarity with the issues of the formation of historical science in Ukraine from the 1990s to the mid-2000s. At the same time, one can observe Matskiv’s research activity even in his advanced age. He discusses his new publications and reissues of already known works with the addressee. The addition of letters to Theodore Matskiv from the author to the main epistolary corpus broadens the context of their long-term communication. The publication of new sources not only deepens the understanding of one of the well-known researchers of early modern Ukrainian history after the post-war emigration wave, but also reproduces the mechanism of communication between historians of the old generation and scientists of independent Ukraine
From the Newsletters on the Initial Period of War between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Ottoman Empire in 1672–1676
Get PDFIn this article, the author examines the newsletters (news, vouchers, information, relays, etc) related to the first year of the Polish-Turkish war in 1672–1676. These documents served as contemporary newspapers, and were more numerous than printed works in terms of both quantity and efficiency. They allow us to reveal the details of the events in the first half of 1672 (before the fall of Kamianets-Podilskyi), during which the Ottoman Empire’s vassals — the Crimean Khanate, Moldova, and Wallachia — were actively engaged. At the same time, they vividly reflect the difficult situation in the Right-Bank Hetmanate, which was forced to fight the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Muscovy, and the Ottoman Empire, which led to the outbreak of internecine struggle. Furthermore, the military and political situation in Podillia and unknown facts about the activities of Hetmans Petro Doroshenko, Mykhailo Khanenko, and colonels (Ivan Sirko, Lysytsia, Kyiashko, and others) are presented. It should be noted that, despite the undoubted positive aspects, newsletters have certain drawbacks that affected the degree of their reliability. First of all, this is the use of rumors, unverified second-hand information, although it was not always possible to verify the information received
MYRHOROD DOCUMENTS FROM THE “BOOK-ARCHIVE” OF THE SAVIOR-TRANSFIGURATION MGARSKY MONASTERY OF THE XVII-XVIII CENTURIES
Get PDFThis article presents archival documents of the Cossack era from the Central State Historical Archive of Ukraine in Kyiv. These are the universals of hetmans and colonels concerning the Mhar Monastery, its estates, its relations with Lubny and Zaporizhzhia Sich. The immediate task is the introduction into scientific circulation, the actualization of hitherto unknown historical sources that are important for the history of Ukraine, especially for the history of such a region as Poltava region. In the above-mentioned archives, hitherto unknown documents were discovered and published for the first time. The vast majority of documents belong to other categories of act documents — gifts, merchants, wills, court rulings. They shed light on the city government of Lubnу, the history of the relationship of general and regimental power with the Church, especially with the Mhar Monastery, the mechanism of increasing its land ownership. In general, the documents published here shed additional light on the history of Poltava region of the last third of the 17 — early 18 centuries. The article also contains previously unknown documents concerning the past of Poltava region of hetman times, towns and villages of Lubny, Myrhorod and Poltava regiments, Mhar monastery, their socio-economic, political history
The Associates of Bohdan Khmelnytsky
Get PDFThis article presents the first scholarly investigation into the biographies of two lesser-known associates of Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky: General Oboznyi (Wagoner) Fedir Korobka and the Chyhyryn Colonel Herasym Kaplonsky. Drawing upon dispersed published and archival sources, the study traces their life trajectories and political stances, addressing key questions regarding their birth dates, family backgrounds, education, and roles in the events of the Ukrainian National Liberation War (1648–1658) and the subsequent Ruin in the latter half of the seventeenth century. Genealogical research serves as a crucial tool for deepening our understanding of historical realities and reinterpreting previously established facts. Clarifying the roles of these historical figures in the mid- to late seventeenth century provides insight into the interplay of objective and subjective factors that shaped the key developments of the period. The findings support the argument that both Korobka and Kaplonsky were loyal associates of Bohdan Khmelnytsky and later supported Ivan Vyhovsky. However, Korobka eventually sided with Yurii Khmelnytsky, while Kaplonsky appears to have perished. The analysis of their biographical trajectories sheds light on the factors influencing the military and political careers of Khmelnytsky’s and Vyhovskyi’s associates. Additionally, the conclusions regarding the family history of Herasym Kaplonsky are supplemented by the publication of a historical document — an excerpt from the Kyiv municipal records — containing a deed of land sale by one of his descendants
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Із нових документів до біографії Інокентія Ґізеля
Get PDFУ публікації подано чотири документи із зібрань відділу рукописів Бібліотеки Польської Академії наук у Кракові (Польща), які до цього часу не було введено до наукового обігу. У супровідному тексті проаналізовано ці документи, наведено невідомі дані щодо біографій видатних церковних і культурних діячів ХVІІ ст., вихованців Києво-Могилянської академії І. Ґізеля і А. Радивиловського
Українська медієвістика (рання новістика) в особах дослідників: Сергій Плохій у спогадах о. проф. Юрія Мицика
Get PDFThe publication includes the memoirs of Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor Yurii Mytsyk about one of his students, the Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard Serhii Plokhy. The historians first met in the mid-1970s at the Historical department of Dnipropetrovsk State University. Yurii Mytsyk was the lecturer at the Chair of general history, and Serhii Plokhy was a first-year student. The memoir reveals the circumstances of acquaintance and the beginning of young scholar’s scientific work under the supervision of Yurii Mytsyk. It was at the latter's suggestion that Serhii Plokhy began to study Latin-language historiography, wrote his first research paper sand published articles. In addition, the professor talks about the problems that his student faced when entering postgraduate school and how he managed to overcome them. The historian also recalls Serhii Plokhy's preparation of his PhD thesis “Latin-language works of the mid-seventeenth century as a source on the history of the Liberation War of the Ukrainian people in 1648-1654” at the Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow. The stories of personal friendships and inter-family communication between historians are of special interest. Yurii Mytsyk talks about Serhii Plokhy’s arrival at the Department of General History as a lecturer, his professional growth and career progression, and participation in the life of the Historical department. He talks about the complicated relations between colleagues-historians during the election of Serhii Plokhy as head of the chair, his work as dean of the Faculty for Foreign Students, and the circumstances under which Plokhy had to leave Dnipro University.
A separate part of the memoirs is devoted to Serhii Plokhy’s academic trips abroad and the impressions he shared with his colleagues, including a joint trip to an international conference in Italy. A part of the memoirs is devoted to the contacts between the historians when they both stopped working at the Dnipropetrovsk University and met during Yurii Mytsyk’s internship in Canada.У публікації наведено спогади доктора історичних наук, професора Юрія Мицика про одного зі своїх учнів – професора Гарвардського університету Сергія Плохія. Історики вперше перетнулися в середині 1970-х рр. на історичному факультеті Дніпропетровського державного університету. Юрій Мицик був викладачем кафедри загальної історії, а Сергій Плохій – студентом першого курсу. У спогадах розкриваються обставини знайомства та початку наукової роботи молодого історика під керівництвом Юрія Мицика. Саме з подачі останнього Сергій Плохій почав досліджувати латиномовну історіографію, написав перші наукові розвідки та опублікував статті. Окрім того, професор розповідає про проблеми, які виникли перед його учнем під час вступу до аспірантури,і проте, як йому вдалося їх подолати.
Історик згадує і про підготовку Сергієм Плохієм кандидатської дисертації «Латиномовні твори середини XVII століття як джерело з історії Визвольної війни українського народу 1648–1654 рр.» в університеті ім. Патріса Лумумби в Москві.
Особливий інтерес становлять сюжети особистих дружніх контактів та міжродинного спілкування істориків. Юрій Мицик розповідає про прихід Сергія Плохія на кафедру загальної історії як викладача, про його зростання, просування кар’єрними сходами та про участь у житті історичного факультету. Про непрості стосунки істориків під час балотування та обрання Сергія Плохія завідувачем кафедри, роботу деканом факультету для іноземних студентів та обставини, за яких він був змушений покинути Дніпропетровський університет. Окрема частина спогадів присвячена закордонним відрядженням Сергія Плохія та враженнями від них, якими він ділився з колегами, про спільну поїздку на міжнародну конференцію в Італію.
Частина спогадів присвячена контактам істориків у часи, коли вони обидва припинили працювати в Дніпропетровському університеті та зустрічалися під час стажування Юрія Мицика в Канаді
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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