JÓZEF WERESZCZYŃSKI’S POLITICAL TREATISES ABOUT THE CHIVALRIC SCHOOLS IN UKRAINE
Journal: Polish Studies of Kyiv
Year: 2024

The article examines the treatises and political projects of Józef Wereszczyński (1532–1598), the Catholic bishop of Kyiv, about chivalric schools in Ukraine. Thus, in the first treatise “Droga pewna...” (1590), he outlined a program for the revival of princely Ukraine, where the concept of colonization of the region included the creation of a defensive border against danger from the East. The bishop developed a specific radical project for the establishment of a chivalric school in Ukraine and