Volume 3-2

Der Sinai als Pilgerziel

Reichert, F. Der Sinai als Pilgerziel, in: Proslogion: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Social History and Culture. 2017. Vol. 3(2). P. 7–25.

Folker Reichert, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Stuttgart University (70174, Germany, Stuttgart, Keplerstraße, 7)

Language: Deutsch

This article deals with the Christian Pilgrimage to Mount Sinai and its significance in the Later Middle Ages. It is shown that the journey was extremely difficult and even dangerous for Western (i. e. catholic) pilgrims. But finally they were rewarded with a series of spiritual experiences at one of the most important places for Christian faith. They were allowed to see the place where Godfather, hidden into a burning bush, appeared to the prophet Moses and the place where Moses delivered the laws of God to his people, in Saint Catherine’s Monastery they could touch the Holy relics of that highly venerated saint, and on top of Mount Sinai they could imagine the rest of the world and God’s omnipotence in it. After coming home, the pilgrims reported on their adventures and the noble ones added a special sign, St. Catherine’s wheel, to their arms. In many ways they made it visible how important the pilgrimage to Mount Sinai was for the medieval Christian world-view.

Key Words: Mount Sinai, pilgrimage, St Catherine’s Monastery, Saint Catherine’s wheel, Greek Monks, medieval world-view, medieval world map

URL: http://proslogion.ru/32-reichert/

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Religion und Gesellschaft in deutschen Landen im 15. und frühen 16. Jahrhundert. Mentalität und Bewusstseinshorizont

Buchholz, W. Religion und Gesellschaft in deutschen Landen im 15. und frühen 16. Jahrhundert. Mentalität und Bewusstseinshorizont, in: Proslogion: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Social History and Culture. 2017. Vol. 3(2). P. 51–74.

Werner Buchholz, д. и. н., профессор, университет Грайфсвальда (17489, Germany, Greifswald, Domstraße 11)

Language: Deutsch

The parish, the pilgrimage and atonement were the three pillars of late medieval religious practice. The parish took care of the faithful in their everyday lives, which were inextricably linked their work on the land. During pilgrimages, the parish made sure that pilgrims fulfilled the necessary conditions. Atonement had two main aims: on the one hand, acts of atonement, amongst which a pilgrimage was considered to carry significant weight, were intended to ensure salvation for a person who suffered a sudden death, unprepared for the hereafter, and on the other hand atonement was intended to provide material security for the murdered person’s family. A murderer who killed a father and breadwinner, for example, had to replace what he had taken from a family. All three phenomena were strongly influenced by the veneration of saints. With the Reformation a fundamental change occurred here. The veneration of saints was abolished and with it the pilgrimage and the practice of atonement also disappeared. The relationship of the pastor with the woman in his household was legalized; she became the pastor’s honored wife. The pastor and his family were given the task of serving as a model and ideal example of Protestant family life.The veneration of saints ceased. With that pilgrimages and atonement also came to an end.

Key Words: parish, pilgrimage, atonement, saints, death, conditions, household, Reformation

URL: http://proslogion.ru/32-buchholz/

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Late medieval German prayer books: religious consciousness of the turn of the 15–16th centuries

Logutova, M. G.
Pozdnesrednevekovye nemetskoyazychnye molitvenniki, religioznoe soznanie rubezha XIV–XV vv. [Late Medieval German Prayer Books: Religious Consciousness of the Turn of the 14–15th Centuries], in: Proslogion: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Social History and Culture. 2017. Vol. 3 (2). P. 51–74.

Margarita Georgievna Logutova, PhD in History, senior scientific researcher, Manuscript Department of the National Library of Russia (191023, Rossiya, Sankt-Petersburg, ploshad’ Ostrovskogo, 1/3)

Language: Russian

In the late Middle Ages, the most accessible way of communicating with God was prayer. The texts of prayers fixed in handwritten prayer books, these most personal and most read books, reveal the spiritual world of the Middle Ages in the closest approximation to reality. 1470–1525 years became the peak of prayer-making, the time when a huge number of new prayers were created. The religious processes taking place at that time in Germany were adequately reflected in handwritten prayer books. The texts of prayers clearly followed the basic tendencies of the religious consciousness of society and equally clearly indicated the changes that had taken place in them. This thesis finds confirmation in the three German-language prayer books stored in the Russian National Library, created in the second half of the 15th – first quarter of the 16th century. The texts contained in them show that in studying the reasons for the rapid spread of 95 Luther theses in Germany, along with social, political and technological (book printing) factors, it is also necessary to take into account the religious consciousness of literate Germans, raised by late medieval German-speaking prayer books.

Key Words: devotio moderna, handwritten book, Luther, St. Anna, the Virgin Mary, Christ

URL: http://proslogion.ru/32-logutova/

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Review of the international scientific conference «Religion and Society in Europe: from the Middle Ages to the New Time»

Keller, O. B., Prokopiev, A. Yu. Obzor mezhdunarodnoy nauchnoy konferentsii «Religiya i obshchestvo v Evrope: ot Srednikh vekov k Novomu vremeni»[Review of the international scientific conference «Religion and Society in Europe: from the Middle Ages to the New Time»], in: Proslogion: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Social History and Culture. 2017. Vol. 3 (2). P. 244–252.

Olga Keller, doctor of Hisroty, University of Tübingen (72074, Germany, Tübingen, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz)

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

URL: http://proslogion.ru/32-keller/

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Second European Symposim in Celtic Studies at the University of Bangor — New Challenges and Issues of Celtic Studies

Levin, F. E., Snesareva, M. Ju. Vtoroy Evropeyskiy simpozium kel’tologov v Universitete Bangora — novye vyzovy i problemy kel’tologii [Second European Symposim in Celtic Studies at the University of Bangor — New Challenges and Issues of Celtic Studies], in: Proslogion: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Social History and Culture. 2017. Vol. P. 235–243.

Feliks Evgenievich Levin, senior lecturer, Higher School of Economics in Saint-Petersburg (191021, Rossiya, Sankt-Petersburg, ulitsa Soyuza Pechatnikov, 16)

Marina Jurievna Snesareva, PhD, Moscow State University (119991, Rossiya, Moskva, ulitsa Leninskie Gory, 1)

URL: http://proslogion.ru/32-levin-snesareva/

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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 Second Part. Religious Peace (1598–1608)

Angard, L., Shishkin, V. V., Gerasimova, E. S. Neizvestnye pis’ma i dokumenty Genrikha IV Frantsuzskogo iz arkhivnykh sobraniy Sankt-Peterburga i Moskvy (1577–1608). Chast’ vtoraya. Religioznyy mir (1598–1608) [Unknown Letters and Documents of Henry IV of France from the Archival Collections of Saint-Petersburg and Moscow (1577–1608). The Second Part. Religious Peace (1598–1608)], in: Proslogion: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Social History and Culture. 2017. Vol. 3 (2). P. 216–234.

Laurent Angard, doctorant, Université Jean Monnet (42100, France, Saint-Étienne, 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: English

The present publication of unknown letters and papers of the French king Henry IV is initiated by the Russian–French team of researchers and published in No 1 (7) «RSUH/RGGU Bulletin», 2017, and in No 3 (1) of the journal «Proslogion. Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Social History and Culture», 2017. These documents demonstrate the efforts by the new French king of the Bourbon dynasty Henry IV (1589–1610) to regain foreign policy authority and inner political stability after forty years of civil wars.

Key Words: Henry IV, French history, autographs, correspondence, Religious peace, collection of P. Dubrovskiy, collection of G. Orlov, collection of P. Waxel, collection of P. Sukhtelen

URL: http://proslogion.ru/32-henry4/

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The Response of Unofficial Reviewers

Slyadz’, A. N. Otvet neofitsial’nym opponentam [The Response of Unofficial Reviewers], in: Proslogion: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Social History and Culture. 2017. Vol. 3 (2). Р. 193–216.

Andrey Nikolaevich Slyadz, PhD in History, additional education teacher, Saint Petersburg City Palace of Youth Creativity (191011, Rossiya, Sankt-Peterburg, Nevsky prospekt, 39A).

Language: Russian

This article is dedicated of problem of the military and political relations of Byzantium and Rus in the XI – early XII c., as well as special aspects of study of these relations by several Russian scientists.

Key Words: Byzantium, Rus, Cis-Azov region, Crimea, Cherson, Chersonesus, Tmutarakan

URL: http://proslogion.ru/32-slyadz/

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