title: Between East and West: Understanding Early Modern Ukraine
abstract: The face of modern Ukraine was shaped between the 16th to the 18th centuries.As the successor of the Slavic principality of Kyivan Rus, the various state entities that emerged on the Ukrainian lands, or Ukraine-Rus, during this early modern period, absorbed the heritage of Eastern Christian Byzantium while also existing within the cultural and political orbit of Central and Western Europe.During this period, the lands of the medieval Rus were incorporated into a succession of polities beginning 
journal: transcript Verlag eBooks