What do Grodno monastery chronicles keep silent about? (Second half of the seventeenth and the eighteenth century) Cover Image

O czym milczą kroniki klasztorów grodzieńskich (II połowa XVII – XVIII wiek)
What do Grodno monastery chronicles keep silent about? (Second half of the seventeenth and the eighteenth century)

Author(s): Hanna Paulouskaya
Subject(s): Cultural history, Oral history, Social history, 17th Century, 18th Century
Published by: Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: monastery chronicles;seventeenth and eighteenth centuries;author;historical source;monastery

Summary/Abstract: There search is based on eight chronicles written down in five Grodno (Hrodna) monasteries in the second half of the seventeenth and in the eighteenth century. The content of the chronicles and the ways of its presentation allow the author to analyse the texts and find out topics and points missed. These omissions indicate chronicles as a literary genre, tell us about the goals of writing them down and about the specifics of the authors, give special value to any information included in the chronicles as an exception.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 96-103
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish