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Prokopiev, A. Yu. Tridtsatiletnyaya voyna vzglyadom politologa [Thirty Years War Interpreted by a Politologist], in: Proslogion: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Social History and Culture, 2018. Vol. 4 (1). P. 139–168.

Andrey Yur’evich Prokopiev, doctor of History, professor, Institute of History, St. Petersburg State University (199034, Rossiya, Sankt-Peterburg, Mendeleevskaya liniya, 5)
a.prokopiev@spbu.ru

Language: Russian

The article is dedicated to the book of the German political scientist Herfried Münkler, published on the anniversary of the beginning of the Thirty Years’ War with the author’s political science postulates being critically examined. Is it possible to see the Thirty Years’ War as the forerunner of modern «hybrid» and «asymmetric» wars? What are the lessons of this war for modernity and can we use the laws of modern political science to analyze the early modern times? Is the «interference» of modern sciences in the field of historical research academically correct? The work of the well-known German scholar’s is analyzed in accordance with historical approach, taking into account the latest literature devoted to the Thirty Years’ War. It is emphasized that the laws of political science, projected into the past, can hardly help to reconstruct the historical panorama of events. They only emerge further questions and doubts. For the successful argumentation of the theses, it is necessary to take into account the point of view of historians, specialized in a certain epoch.

Key Words: Thirty Years’ War, Holy Roman Empire, Peace of Westphalia, Habsburger, German Estates, asymmetrical and hybridical war, Early Modern period

URL: http://proslogion.ru/41-prokopiev/

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Kuleshova, E. V.
K voprosu o metodologicheskih i zhanrovykh osobennostyakh traktatov Kloda de Seysselya [On the methodological and genre peculiarities of the treatises of Claude de Seyssel], in: Proslogion: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Social History and Culture, 2018. Vol. 4 (2). P. 71–84.

Elena Vladimirovna Kuleshova, doctor of History, assistant professor, Institute of History, Saint-Peterburg State University (199034, Rossiya, Sankt-Peterburg, Mendeleevskaya liniya, 5)
e.kuleshova@spbu.ru

Language: Russian

In this article the methodological and genre peculiarities of the treatises of Claude de Seyssel are studied. He tried to adapt the methodology of humanisctic historical inquiry, having joined it with the national French historical tradition, and thus attempted to make his contribution to the development of Western European humanisctic historiography in the context of political competition in Europe in the course of the Italian Wars. Arguing in his treatise against those who stood for the predominance of Venice in the military and political aspects, Claude de Seyssel sought to prove that the French monarchy was the model of the working social and political system that could be understood in the terms of humanistic concepts, and thus he contributed to the development of communication and mutual influence between humanistic Italian and French traditions of history-writing.

Key Words: Claude de Seyssel, historical and social and political thought, methodology, humanistic historiography, Italian Wars, Renaissance, Early Modern period

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