About the conference «XXXVI Readings after G. L. Kurbarov»

Мekhamadiev, Е. А. O konferentsii «XXXVI Kurbatovskie chteniya» [About the conference «XXXVI Readings after G. L. Kurbarov»], in: Proslogion: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Social History and Culture, 2017. Vol. 3 (1). P. 299308.

Еvgeniy Аleksandrovich Мekhamadiev, doctor of History, senior lecturer, Institute of History, St. Petersburg State University (199034, Rossiya, Sankt-Peterburg, Mendeleevskaya linia, 5)

Language: Russian

URL: http://proslogion.ru/31-mekhamadiev-2/

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International Academic conference. Rituals of power. The ceremonies of courts and states from the Late Medieval period to the Modern era. The Royal Castle in Warsaw, Poland. 6–8 october

Shishkin, V. V. Mezhdunarodnaya akademicheskaya konferentsiya «Ritualy vlasti. Gosudarstvennye i pridvornye tseremonii v pozdnesrednevekoviy period i v Novoye vremya». Varshava, 6–8 oktyabrya 2016 г. [Chronica: International Academic conference. Rituals of power. The ceremonies of Courts and States from the Late Medieval period to the Modern era. The Royal Castle in Warsaw, Poland. 6–8 october 2016], in: Proslogion: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Social History and Culture, 2017. Vol. 3 (1). P. 293298.

INITIALS SURNAMEVladimir Vladimirovich Shishkin, doctor of History, assistant professor, Institute of History, St. Petersburg State University (199034, Rossiya, SanktPeterburg, Mendeleevskaya linia, 5)

Language: Russian

URL: http://proslogion.ru/31-shishkint/

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Unknown letters and documents of the Henry IV of France from the arhival collections of Saint-Petersburg and Moscow (1577–1609). The first part. Religious wars (1577–1594)

Angard, L., Shishkin, V. V., Gerasimova, E. S. Neizvestnye pis’ma i dokumenty Genrikha IV Frantsuzskogo iz arkhivnykh sobraniy Sankt-Peterburga i Moskvy (1577–1609). Chast’ pervaya. Religioznye voyny (1577–1594) [Unknown letters and documents of Henry IV of France from the arhival collections of Saint-Petersburg and Moscow (1577–1609). The first part. Religious wars (1577–1594)], in: Proslogion: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Social History and Culture, 2017. Vol. 3 (1). P. 267292.

Laurent Angard, doctorant, Université Jean Monnet (42100, France, SaintÉtienne, rue Tréfilerie)

Vladimir Vladimirovich Shishkin, doctor of History, assistant professor, Institute of History, St. Petersburg State University (199034, Rossiya, Sankt-Peterburg, Mendeleevskaya linia, 5)

Ekaterina Sergeevna Gerasimova, doctor of History, assistant professor, Institute of History and Archives, Russian State University for the Humanities (109012, Rossiya, Moskva, Nikol’skaya ulitsa, 15)

Language: Russian

The present publication of unknown letters and papers of the French king Henry IV is a documentary application to the Introduction initiated by the RussianFrench team of researchers and published in № 1 (7) «RSUH/RGGU Bulletin», 2017. These documents reflect the struggle for power of the prince of the blood Henry de Bourbon, king of Navarre, against the ruling house of Valois, and also against claimants to the throne, Dukes of Guise-Lorraine, which ended in his ascension to the throne under the name of Henry IV (1589–1610).

Key Words: Henry of Navarre, autographs, correspondence, Religious wars, collection of P. Dubrovsky, collection of G. Orlov, collection P. Waxel, collection of P. Sukhtelen

URL: http://proslogion.ru/31-shishin-gerasimova-angardt/

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Political economists in spite of themselves. Richard Lachman’s «Capitalists in spite of Themselves. Elite Conflict and Economic Transitions in Early Modern Europe» and neomarxist methodology

Kovalev, V. A. Politekonomisty ponevole: Richard Lakhman «Kapitalisty ponevole. Konflikt elit i ekonomicheskie preobrazovaniya v Evrope rannego Novogo vremeni» i metodologiya neomarksizma [Political economists in spite of themselves. Richard Lachman’s «Capitalists in spite of Themselves. Elite Conflict and Economic Transitions in Early Modern Europe» and neomarxist methodology], in: Proslogion: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Social History and Culture, 2017. Vol. 3 (1). P. 258266.

Victor Aleksandrovich Kovalev, Doctor of History, assistant professor, St. Petersburg State University of the Humanities and Social Sciences (192238, Rossiya, Sankt-Peterburg, ulitsa Fuchika, dom 15)

Language: Russian

This review of Richard Lachman’s «Capitalists in spite of themselves» shows pluses and minuses of the research. Also in the review actual historiography issues are discussed and neomarxist methodology came under criticism. The criticist argues that the key issue of the research is Marxist’s thesis of the distributive role of the authorities and economical reductionism. Accepting Pierre Bourdieu conception of social and symbolic capital, Lachman returns to the classical Marxist conception of base (economy) and superstructure (power, policy culture and other). The role of the symbolic, social, military, spiritual capital became downgraded and diminished. Benefit of the research is attention to the historical process in Italian city-states which set aside of the researcher’s attention very often. Also other form’s of non-classical form of medieval power and society structuring, the Holy Empire, the spiritual knight’s Orders, the city’s unions, etc. are left by Lachman unattended, because of their disengagement in transition to capitalist economy. His interesting conception of «vertical» and «horizontal» absolutism wasn’t developed because of the researcher’s inattention to non-material and mythological forms of power. In spite of references to Paul-Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu works, Lachman continues to envisage political power as a distributive structure. Being interesting and very informative, Lachman’s research inherits Marxist’s paradigm deficiencies.

Key Words: Neo-history, Marxism, neo-Marxism, Foucault, Braudel

URL: http://proslogion.ru/31-kovalevt/

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Luther afterwards five centuries: thoughts on Heiko Oberman’s book

Prokopiev, A. Yu., Lurie, Z. A. Lyuter pyat’ vekov spustya. Razmyshleniya nad knigoy Khayko Obermana [Luther afterwards five centuries: Thoughts on Heiko Oberman’s book], in: Proslogion: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Social History and Culture, 2017. Vol. 3 (1). P. 235257.

Andrey Yur’evich Prokopiev, doctor of History, professor, St. Petersburg State University (199034, Rossiya, Sankt-Petersburg, Universitetskaia nab., 7/9)

Zinaida Andreevna Lurie, doctor of History, assistant lecturer, Saint-Petersburg State University (199034, Russia, Saint-Petersburg, Мendeleevskaya liniya, 5)

Language: Russian

The main attention is focused on the new and the old in formation of Luther as a theologian and interpretation of connection between Lutheran and medieval views by Oberman. Could the Reformation be interpreted as a «German event»? Was it the development of the medieval tradition? What was the role of the Luther’s family in development of his personality? In what way the young monk was affected by the late medieval spiritual practices? How Luther’s worldview changed and is it possible to date precisely the appearance of the Reformation doctrine? What is the role of the devil in his theology and what main discoveries during his biblical studies were made? At last, how the first Reformation events went and how did Luther split from the old Church, what are the external and internal circumstances of his apostasy. Reflections about his own past greatly influenced on Oberman’s interpretation of Luther. His book on the Reformer could be seen as his own confession. His thoughts are from positions of modern Luther studies. The wide scopus of academic works timed to the Reformation jubilee is made. The author marks out the most important idea of the book: Luther signifies the end of the Middle ages and beginning of the Modern era, but his personality was unchanged. He was the gifted man who managed to reopen Gospel for people and led them after him.

Key Words: Luther, Reformation, biography, late middle ages, piety, Wittenberg

URL: http://proslogion.ru/31-prokopiev-luriet/

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The French hunting fire-arms of the 17–18th centuries in the collection of the Gatchina Palace and Estate Museum

Rodionov, E. A. Frantsuzskoe okhotnich’ye oruzhie XVII–XVIII vv. v sobranii Gatchinskogo dvortsa-muzeya [The French hunting fire-arms of the 17–18th centuries in the collection of the Gatchina Palace and Estate Museum], in: Proslogion: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Social History and Culture, 2017. Vol. 3 (1). P. 221234.

Rodionov Eugeniy Alexandrovich, senior research officer, curator of the Arms Department at the Gatchina Palace and Estate Museum, town of Gatchina (188300, Rossiya, Gatchina, Krasnoarmeyskiy pr., 1)

Language: Russian

The collection of hunting firearms of Gatchina Palace and Estate Museum (former imperial residence) contents about 50 guns and pistols made in France in the 17–18th centuries, the period, when the French style of making and decoration of fire-arms dominated all over Europe. The article briefly describes four wheel-lock pistols of the beginning of the 17th century and several guns and pistols of the end of the 17th – beginning of the 18th century, made in Paris, Sedan and Saint-Étienne. Some of these guns were made by the best Parisian masters of the time, who had the king’s privilege to live and work in the Galleries of Louvre, namely Adrien Reynier and Jean Baptiste Laroche. The author focuses on details of construction and style of firearms, especially common for French gunsmiths of that period, such as «French» type of wheel-lock with separated mainspring and axis of a wheel, passing through the stock, a manner of decoration of barrels with golden incrustation upon the blued ground, light and elegant stocks, decorated with incrustation of silver wire, etc. Also the author gives brief notes about the gunsmiths, their places and dates of life.

Key Words: Gatchina Palace and Estate Museum, hunting fire-arms, France, Sedan, Paris, Galerie du Louvre, flintlock, wheellock, gun, pistol, Françoi Bletterie, Adrien Reynier, Laurent de Lachaise, Jean Baptiste Laroche, Tristan Allevin, Pierre Puiforcat, Giller-Tissot, Baloche

URL: http://proslogion.ru/31-rodionovt/

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Passage de Marguerite de Valois a Saint-Amant-Tallende et Saint Saturnin (octobre–novembre 1586)

Dupont-Madinier, A. Passage de Marguerite de Valois a Saint-Amant-Tallende et Saint Saturnin (octobre–novembre 1586), in: Proslogion: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Social History and Culture, 2017. Vol. 3 (1). P. 209220.

Antoine Dupont-Madinier, independent researcher (BH2 6NE, UK, Bournemouth, Dorset, 3 Durrant Road)

Language: French

This article aims to make more precise some details of political biography of Marguerite de Valois, queen of Navarre, sister of last kings deriving from Valois dynasty and spouse of Henri of Navarre, future Henri IV, king of France. Fromthe stay of Marguerite de Valois, queen of Navarre, in Auvergne, her wandering to Carlat (1585), her flight to Ibois and her long residence in Usson (1587–1605), have been widely documented. On the other hand, owing to poor documentation, relatively little is known by the scholars about the three weeks following her arrest and the brief passage in Saint-Amant-Tallende and Saint Saturnin. This article gathers all the elements that exist in this brief period of his life, but probably one of the most desperate. Analyzing all these few documents kept in the National Library of Russia, National Library of France as well as some other sources the author, co-owner of Saint-Amant-Murol, tries to explain the choices that have been made regarding her captivity and the conditions of it and finally lists the still existing traces of its passage.

Key Words: Marguerite de Valois, Reine Margot, Marquis de Canillac, Auvergne, Henri III, Catherine de Medicis, Henri de Navarre

URL: http://proslogion.ru/31-dupont/

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