Aspects of privacy in the Grand Tour Correspondence (1701–1703) undertaken by Henry Bentinck, Viscount Woodstock, along with his tutor Paul Rapin-Thoyras

Green, M.Aspekty privatnosti v korrespondentsii Grand Tura (1701–1703), predprinyatogo Genrikhom Bentinkom, vikontom Vudstokskim, vmeste so svoim guvernerom Polem Rapan-Tuayra [Aspects of privacy in the Grand Tour Correspondence (1701–1703) undertaken by Henry Bentinck, Viscount Woodstock, along with his tutor Paul Rapin-Thoyras], in: Proslogion: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Social History and Culture, 2019. Vol. 5 (2). P. 111–130.

Michaël Green, PhD, Cultural History of Christianity- Danish National Research Foundation Centre for Privacy Studies, University of Copenhagen (DK-2300, København S, Karen Blixens Plads 16)

Language: Russian

The Grand Tour undertaken between 1701–1703 by Paul Rapin-Thoyras and his pupil Henry Bentinck, Viscount Woodstock, the son of the prominent Anglo-Dutch politician Hans Willem Bentinck is an interesting case for exploration because during the whole journey, both parties sent letters to the father. These letters were dedicated to the description of the daily life and customs of the cities visited, and personal relationship between the father, the son and the tutor. The aim of this article is to analyse various notions of privacy as can be seen in the letters themselves as well as in the particular selection of letters that have been copied at a later stage into a letter-book, now kept at the British Library.

Key Words: Grand Tour, travel, education, privacy, correspondence

URL: http://proslogion.ru/52-green/

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Account of the Russian scientific conference «Readings after Kurbatov XXXIX»

Dmitrieva, M. I., Kuleshova, E. V.Obzor vserossiyskoy nauchnoy konferentsii «Kurbatovskie tcheniya XXXIX» [Account of the Russian scientific conference «Readings after Kurbatov XXXIX»], in: Proslogion: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Social History and Culture, 2019. Vol. 5 (2). P. 202–217.

Marina Igorevna Dmitrieva, doctor of History, associate professor, Institute of History, Saint-Peterburg State University (199034, Rossiya, Sankt-Petersburg, Mendeleevskaya liniya, 5)

Yelena Vladimirovna Kuleshova, PhD in History, assistant professor of medieval history, Institute of History, St. Petersburg State University (199034, Rossiya, Sankt-Peterburg, Mendeleevskaya linia, dom 5)

Language: Russian

URL: http://proslogion.ru/52-dmitrieva/

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PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS ON THE NEGOTIATION BETWEEN JAN POTOCKI AND SIGISMUND III IN 1601–1602. A STANDPOINT IN THE DEBATE REGARDING JAN ZAMOYSKI’S AFFINITY AND MULTIPLE FIDELITIES

Bobicescu, C. A.Preliminary considerations on the negotiation between Jan Potocki and Sigismund III in 1601–1602. A standpoint in the debate regarding Jan Zamoyski’s affinity and multiple fidelities, in: Proslogion: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Social History and Culture, 2019. Vol. 5 (2). P. 58–81.

Cristian Antim Bobicescu, PhD student, Doctoral School of the Romanian Academy, Nicolae Iorga Institute of History, Bucharest (10565, Romania, Bucuresti, Bulevardul aviatorilor 1)

Language: Russian

The article tries to shed a new light on the problem of surviving of the affinity of the Great Chancellor and Hatman of the Crown Jan Zamoyski during the last part of his life, which also corresponds to the conflict between him and the Polish-Lithuanian monarch Sigismund III. We have chosen as a case study the Potocki family, which in Polish historiography occupies a central place in this debate. The analysis of the correspondence between Jan Potocki – the eldest of the four brothers — and King Sigismund III during 1601–1602 highlights a communicative substrate that underline Jan Potocki’s desire to establish a personal connection/bond with the Polish monarch. The result of this semi-clandestine correspondence is the reward of two of the four brothers by the king, and the appearance of a double fidelity, the one owed to the Polish-Lithuanian monarch doubling the one due to Zamoyski. The factors that facilitated the orientation of the four brothers to the monarch were, their dissatisfaction with the prizes they had obtained so far due to Zamoyski, his advanced age and the king’s youth, as well as the loss of the Swedish throne by Sigismund in 1599, which thus, in the eyes of the Polish-Lithuanian nobility, made him a more secure partner with whom they could negotiate their careers, wealth and prestige. Taking this into consideration, their intention to initiate a liaison with Sigismund IIIrd, is significant for the debate of Polish historiography on the survival or the crisis of Zamoyski’s entourage.

Key Words: Affinity, Sigismund III, Jan Potocki, Jan Zamoyski, cour virtuelle, multiple fidelities

URL: http://proslogion.ru/52-bobicesku/

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Georgiy L’vovich Kurbatov (1929–2003): Methods and Theory of His Studies

Lebedeva, G. E., Mehamadiev, E. A. Georgiy L’vovich Kurbatov (1929–2003 gg.): metodologiya i teoreticheskie osobennosti ego nauchno-issledovatel’skoy deyatel’nosti [Georgiy L’vovich Kurbatov (1929–2003): Methods and Theory of His Studies], in: Proslogion: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Social History and Culture, 2019. Vol. 5 (2). P. 929.

Lebedeva Galina Evgen’evna, doctor of History, professor, Institute of History, Saint-Petersburg State University (199034, St. Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya emb., 7/9, St. Petersburg, Russia)

Mekhamadiev Evgeniy Aleksandrovich, doctor of History, Institute of History, Saint-Petersburg State University (199034, St. Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya emb., 7/9, St. Petersburg, Russia)

Language: Russian

The present paper deals with the research method, i.e. the style of studies of Georgiy L’vovich Kurbatov (1929–2003 гг.), who was the famous Soviet and Russian Byzantine scholar, one of the best scholars of the early Byzantine city during the IVth–VIIth Centuries. The authors comprehend research method as a way of narrative in historical text, in fact — as a form of construction of the text, its structural composition, so, respectively, they try to explain the main essential features of Georgiy L’vovich’s way of thinking, main peculiarities of his scholarly work. The aim of this paper is to show how Georgiy L’vovich composed his texts, how he shaped the structure of his texts and how he established his own history writing-style. The authors presented as an example the Georgiy L’vovich’s massive study The Main Problems of Byzantine City’s Internal Development during the IVth–VIIth Centuries released in 1971 by Leningrad State University Press. For to analyze Georgiy L’vovich’s way of thinking the authors turned to traditions of Anglo-American analytical philosophy of history, its main and most famous representative is an American scholar Hayden White. Having compared Anglo-American traditions with French and German theory of history, the authors concluded that Georgiy L’vovich made a colligatory-procedural narrative, that is he considered the Byzantine city strictly as a range (set) of processes (mainly, social-economic processes), each process was established and arranged chronologically, as step-by-step development (deployment) of events during the time space, from the early stage to the late stage. The ground for this construction (colligation) was evidence of sources, which mention the single citizens, so, as presented in Georgiy L’vovich’s narrative, the actions of the citizens became the live examples of processes. Moreover, he artificially combined with each other a set of different processes, showed their interdependence and mutual penetration, close interrelationships. As a result, as the authors assume, Georgiy L’vovich made a coherent image of the time not from events, but from the processes.

Key Words: Georgiy L’vovich Kurbatov, early Byzantine city, methods, writing of history, colligatory narrative, Hayden White, analytical philosophy of history, process, structure

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