Month: February 2020

Z. V. Udaltsova as an organizer of the Soviet Byzantine studies (by 100-anniversary of the corresponding member of the Academy of sciences of the USSR Z. V. Udaltsova

Lebedeva, G. E., Piotrovskaya, E. K., Slyadz’, A. N. Z. V. Udaltsova kak organizator sovetskogo vizantinovedeniya (k 100-letiyu chlena-korrespondenta Akademii nauk SSSR Z. V. Udaltsovoj) [Z. V. Udaltsova as an organizer of the Soviet Byzantine studies (by 100-anniversary of the corresponding member of the Academy of sciences of the USSR Z. V. Udaltsova], in: Proslogion: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Social History and Culture, 2018. Vol. 4 (2). P. 9–27.

Galina Evgen’evna Lebedeva, Doctor of History, professor, Institute of History, St. Petersburg State University (199034, Rossiya, Sankt-Petersburg, Mendeleevskaya liniya, 5)

Elena Konstantinovna Piotrovskaya, Doctor of History, senior researcher, leading researcher, Scientific and historical archive and a group of source, Saint Petersburg Institute of History, Russian Academy of Sciences (197110, Rossiya, Sankt-Petersburg, Petrozavodskaya ulitsa, 7)

Andrey Nikolaevich Slyadz, doctor of History, additional education teacher, Saint Petersburg city Palace of youth creativity (191011, Rossiya, Sankt-Petersburg, Nevsky prospect, 39a)

Language: Russian

The article addresses the life of Russian Byzantine studies scholar Zinaida Vladimirovna Udatsova (1918–1987). Her life and academic activity show high professionalism, personal conscience and masterful and energetic tutoring. Since the end of the 1950s Z. V. Udaltsova headed the Soviet Byzantine studies for more than 30 years. She managed to raise the public prestige of Byzantine studies and contributed to its international image. Z. V. Udaltsova focused on the fundamental economic and socio-political questions of medieval history and of Byzantine history in particular. In addition to the monograph on the development of Soviet Byzantine studies, she also produced a number of works on particular Soviet Byzantinists. She paid much attention to the development of Soviet Byzantine studies, also contributing to setting their direction. Her academic heritage is an example of the construction of history work and of making it accessible to the large audience. Written in a lively language, the monographs of Z. V. Udalltsova helped and help the development of historical knowledge on the medieval history and in the history of Byzantium.

Key Words: Z. V. Udaltsova, historiography, Soviet Medieval studies, Soviet Byzantine studies, Byzantium, USSR

URL: http://proslogion.ru/42-lebedeva/

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IX Academic readings in tribute to O. A. Dobiash-Rozhdestvenskaya (1874–1939): Chronicle of conference

Gayvoronskiy, I. D.
IX Nauchnye chteniya pamyati O. A. Dobiash-Rozhdestvenskoy (1874–1939): Khronika konferentsii [IX Academic readings in tribute to O. A. Dobiash-Rozhdestvenskaya (1874–1939): Chronicle of conference], in: Proslogion: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Social History and Culture, 2019. Vol. 5 (1). P. 157–161.

Igor Dmitrievich Gayvoronskiy, doctor of History, teacher of history, further education tutor, Federal Government-Funded Educational Institution Gymnasium No 66 (197348, Rossiya, Sankt-Peterburg, Aerodromnaya ulitsa, 11, korpus 2A)

Language: Russian

URL: http://proslogion.ru/51-gayworonskiy/

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A figure of the Escadron Volant: Renée de Rieux, baroness de Castellane

Christiaens, D., Chichkine, V. A figure of the Escadron Volant: Renée de Rieux, baroness de Castellane, in: Proslogion: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Social History and Culture, 2019. Vol. 5 (1). P. 144–156.

Daniel Christian, member of the Editorial Committee, Academy of Sciences, Literature and Arts of Agen (9, Boulevard de la République, 47000, Agen, France)

Vladimir Vladimirovich Chichkine (Shishkin), associate Professor, Department of History of the Middle Ages, Saint-Petersburg State University (199034, Rossiya, Sankt-Peterburg, Mendeleevskaya liniya, 5)

Language: French

This publication of unknown documents from a private French collection touches upon the biography of an aristocrat of the time of Religious Wars, the court lady Renée de Rieux de Chateauneuf, Baroness de Castellane. Newly found original sources shed light on the unknown facts of the life of a famous French woman, who was admired by contemporaries, and whose traces are lost at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries.

Key Words: Religious Wars, 16th century, the French court, Escadron Volant, Renée de Rieux de Chateauneuf

URL: http://proslogion.ru/51-shishkin/

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Neue Interpretation der Geschichte des französischen Königshofes im XVI. Jahrhundert. Rezension des Buches: Vladimir V. Chichkine: Francuzkij korolevskij dvor v XVI veke. Istorija instituta [Французский королевский двор в XVI в. История института]

Schwarcz, I. Neue Interpretation der Geschichte des französischen Königshofes im XVI. Jahrhundert. Rezension des Buches: Vladimir V. Chichkine: Francuzkij korolevskij dvor v XVI veke. Istorija instituta [Der französische Königshof im XVI. Jahrhundert. Die Geschichte der Institution], in: Proslogion: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Social History and Culture, 2019. Vol. 5 (1). P. 139–143.

Iskra Schwarcz, PhD in history, professor, Universität Wien, Institut für Osteuropäische Geschichte (1090, Austria, Wien, Spitalgasse 2)

URL: http://proslogion.ru/51-shwarz/

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How did identities appear in the early Middle Ages? Review on the book «The making of the monastic community in Fulda c. 744–900» by J. Raimakers

Schmidt, G. A. Kak poyavlyalis’ identichnosti v rannem Srednevekov’e? Retsenziya na knigu «The making of the monastic community in Fulda c. 744–900» Ya. Raymakers [How did identities appear in the Early Middle Ages? Review on the book «The making of the monastic community in Fulda c. 744–900» by J. Raaijmakers], in: Proslogion: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Social History and Culture, 2019. Vol. 5 (1). P. 125–138.

Gleb Aleksandrovich Schmidt, postrgraduate student, Université de Lorraine (57045, France, Metz cedex 01, UFR Sciences humaines et sociales, Ile du Saulcy, BP 60228)

Language: Russian

The review of Janneke Raaijmakers’ «The making of the monastic community in Fulda» summarizes methodological fundamentals as well as the most important results of this study, that deals with the development of monastic community of Fulda, one of the most influential and powerful religious institution in Frankish empire. Documented by a variety of narrative, documentary and archeological sources, the history of monastic community in Fulda allows understanding of a complex and continuous social process of creating and shaping group identity in this abbey, that makes Fulda thriving enterprise lasting over a thousand years. J. Raaijmakers argues that the construction of group identity was the result of conscious and never-ending work of Fulda’s abbots and community that was focused, primarily, on shaping common past and adapting it to the needs of current situation. According to her, the creation of different hagiographical texts, historical annals and common commemorative practices aimed to cope with progressing heterogeneity of the community by defining its place in the Christian world and its religious and cultural mission.

Key Words: Fulda, Carolingian, monastery, monasticism, ideology, collective identity

URL: http://proslogion.ru/51-schmidt/

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Regional Military Forces: Some Notes to a New Book on Byzantine Army during the Reign of Justinian I (527–565)

Меkhamadiev, Е. А.
Regional’nye voyskovye gruppirovki: Nekotorye zametki k novoy knige o vizantiyskoy armii epokhi imperatora Yustiniana I (527–565) [Regional Military Forces: Some Notes to a new book on Byzantine army during the reign of Justinian I (527–565)], in: Proslogion: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Social History and Culture, 2019. Vol. 5 (1). P. 114–124.

Еvgeniy Аleksandrovich Меkhamadiev, doctor of History, senior lecturer, Institute of History, Saint-Petersburg State University (199034, Rossiya, Sankt-Peterburg, Mendeleevskaya liniya, 5)

Language: Russian

This paper is a review of the current study of a Byzantine scholar Clemens Koehn «Justinian and the Army of Early Byzantium» published by De Gruyter in 2018. The essence and importance of this book is that up to present times Clemens Koehn’s contribution is the only one massive generalizing study released as a single book, which deals with an army of Justinian specially and exclusively. In turn, the reviewer paid his attention to the first chapter of the book entitled «Army as a Military Tool», where Clemens Koehn considers a development of internal administrative and territorial structures of Justinian’s army. The reviewer points out that the Clemens Koehn’s main idea is a statement about a making of single regional groups (forces) (regionalen Heeresgruppen) during the reign of Justinian, i. e. expeditionary armies, which located in some strictly defined region of Empire. Clemens Koehn proves that the crucial point of Justinian’s military reforms was a making of an absolutely new grouping, that is an expeditionary army of Armenia and, respectively, an establishment of a new command office, that is a master of soldiers of Armenia (magister militum per Armeniam). In turn, the reviewer demonstrates that the circle of Clemens Koehn’s sources is composed of classical and traditional narrative authorities, such as Procopius of Caesarea, Agathias of Myrina and John Malala. Meanwhile, the reviewer argues that Clemens Koehn needs to turn more attention to epigraphic data from the times of Justinian and some of his predecessors, it would permit him to make more detailed and precise study of a history of single military units, which existed during the Justinian’s reign (for instance, the detachments of foederati).

Key Words: Justinian I, army, master of soldiers of Armenia, narrative sources, inscriptions, federates

URL: http://proslogion.ru/51-mehamadiev/

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