Disunion within the Union

The Uniate Church and the Partitions of Poland

Larry Wolff

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Harvard University Press
06 January 2020

European history; History of other lands; Christianity

Series: Harvard Papers in Ukrainian Studies

Between 1772 and 1795, Russia, Prussia, and Austria concluded agreements to annex and eradicate the Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania. With the partitioning of Poland, the dioceses of the Uniate Church (later known as the Greek Catholic Church) were fractured by the borders of three regional hegemons.

Larry Wolff's deeply engaging account of these events delves into the politics of the Episcopal elite, the Vatican, and the three rulers behind the partitions: Catherine II of Russia, Frederick II of Prussia, and Joseph II of Austria. Wolff uses correspondence with bishops in the Uniate Church and ministerial communiqués to reveal the nature of state policy as it unfolded.

Disunion within the Union adopts methodologies from the history of popular culture pioneered by Natalie Zemon Davis (The Return of Martin Guerre) and Carlo Ginzburg (The Cheese and the Worms) to explore religious experience on a popular level, especially questions of confessional identity and practices of piety. This detailed study of the responses of common Uniate parishioners, as well as of their bishops and hierarchs, to the pressure of the partitions paints a vivid portrait of conflict, accommodation, and survival in a church subject to the grand designs of the late eighteenth century's premier absolutist powers.

By: Larry Wolff
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 15
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 249g
ISBN: 9780674246287
ISBN 10: 0674246284
Series: Harvard Papers in Ukrainian Studies
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 06 January 2020
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Larry Wolff is Silver Professor of European History at New York University, Executive Director of the NYU Remarque Institute, and Co-Director of NYU Florence.

Reviews for Disunion within the Union: The Uniate Church and the Partitions of Poland

Wolff writes beautifully and conveys the twists and turns of his argument with finesse, providing a stimulating presentation of these issues. His facility with Italian and Latin bring sources from the Uniate hierarchy and the Vatican to life in a way that so many working on this subject cannot achieve…Scholars of religion and identity in Eastern Europe should appreciate this thoughtful analysis of a significant and complex period in Uniate Church history. -- Barbara Skinner * Russian Review * Wolff has performed brilliantly in providing a new view of how the Enlightenment influenced the rulers and states who reshaped the Uniate Church. -- Frank E. Sysyn * Slavonic and East European Review * Offer[s] a convincing synthesis of the dynamics within the Uniate Church triggered by the partitions of Poland…Though-provoking. -- Paweł Zając * Austrian History Yearbook * Rich in detail and attentive to numerous shifts across several dimensions of history…a decidedly engaging piece which presents a wealth of historical detail, situated within the last two decades of emerging research, and advance[es] our understanding of episodic shifts in religion and identity in East Central Europe. -- Joel Brady * Catholic Historical Review *