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| | Harvard lecture sheds new light on 16th-17th century Ukraine (06/02/02) |
 | | Many historians of the political culture of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth are of the opinion that the religious indifference of nobility was a natural by-product of its ideology of "golden freedoms," of equality and the "brotherhood" of nobility that belonged to different religions. |
 | | This ideology promoted the "unity" of the upper classes of the multi-confessional state; it was meant to be a substitute for the law, the custom, and, it also created an atmosphere of tolerance, which allowed a nobleman to preserve his faith while pursuing a career in the military, the law or in noble pursuits. |
 | | A direct influence of Catholicism and Protestantism could be found in Kyivan homilies, in the structure of church administration, in education, in polemical writings, architecture, icon painting and church singing. |
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