50/1. Mykola Rud

Mykola Rud

Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv,

Kyiv, Ukraine

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-4112-921x 

 DOI: 10.17721/2522-4611.2024.50.1

MEDIEVAL GERMANY IN THE SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTION OF MEDIEVALISTS FROM ST. VOLODYMYR UNIVERSITY OF KYIV IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY

The article is dedicated to one of the priority research areas of medievalists from St. Volodymyr University of Kyiv in the second half of the 19th century – the study of key issues in the historical development of medieval Germany. Based on sources and specialized historical literature, the article analyzes the Kyiv period of scientific and pedagogical activity and the main works in the field of German studies by renowned domestic medievalists of the second half of the 19th century – V. O. Bilbasov, F. Ya. Fortynsky, and V. H. Lyaskoronsky. The research relies on the principles of historicism, scientific rigor, and authorial objectivity, as well as the use of general scientific methods (analysis, synthesis, generalization, comparison) and special historical methods (historicaltypological, historical-systematic). 

By analyzing the scientific contributions of V. O. Bilbasov, F. Ya. Fortynsky, and V. H. Lyaskoronsky in the field of German studies, the author concludes that all of them were adherents of the positivist methodology, which became the conceptual and theoretical basis of European historiography in the 1870s and 1880s. 

It is noted that the key issues of the internal political life of Germany during the Middle Ages, researched by the medievalists of St. Volodymyr University in the second half of the 19th century, included: the relations between secular and spiritual authorities and the role of individual historical personalities in this confrontation, the process of German colonization of the Slavic Baltic coast, the formation of the Hanseatic League of cities, the territory of Slavic settlement in Germany, and Slavic-German relations in the Middle Ages. Thanks to the extensive array of collected factual material and its meticulous processing with great respect for the source as the foundation of any historical research, the works of Kyiv medievalists of the second half of the 19th century on the history of medieval Germany have not lost their relevance even today. 

Key words: St. Volodymyr University, medieval studies, V. O. Bilbasov, F. Ya. Fortynsky, V. H. Lyaskoronsky, medieval Germany, Heinrich IV Raspe, Hanseatic League. 

Received by the editorial board: 31.08.2024.

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