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Information × Registration Number 0121U107538, ( 0224U000170  ) R & D request Title Social organization, models of social behavior and forms of social communication in Old Rus (reflection and transmission in written and material culture) Head Tolochko Oleksii Р., д.і.н. Registration Date 24-01-2021 Organization Institute of History of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine popup.description1 The aim of the project is to study the social interaction in Kievan Rus period and in the late Middle Ages. The processes of social communication in various spheres and the formation of social ideas among the social elite and educated circles will be revealed. The objectives of the work are: to reconstruct the basic models of organization of social strata of Kievan Rus and a set of social concepts of the Old Ruthenian epoch; to study the process of formation of royal identity and dynastic memory; to reveal the role of material objects in the communication of ideas of power by the Old Ruthenian elites; to study the origin of socially significant Old Ruthenian texts; to reveal the peculiarities of the reception of the Ruthenian chronicles in the works of Polish historians of the 15th – 16th centuries. The importance of the proposed project is due to the low level of research on the problems of social communication in the Middle Ages in the Central and Eastern European region. The comparison of Old Ruthenian materials with Central and even Western European ones will be carried out, as well as the tracing of genetic connections of cultural phenomena of Rus, Byzantium and Central and Western Europe. Thus, the Ukrainian component fits into the European medieval context. The proposed project not only fills the gaps in knowledge about the past of Ukraine in the Middle Ages, but also deepens the integration of Ukrainian historiography with world medieval studies. The social significance of the project is to identify in the past models of social communication, in particular between the government and the rest of society, tracing the heredity of social traditions in Ukraine and demonstrating the fundamental unity of the historical process in Ukraine and the rest of Europe in pre-modern times. popup.nrat_date 2024-12-09 Close