Первые хронисты и летописцы среднеевропейского средневековья
The first chroniclers of the Central European Middle Ages

Summary/Abstract: The study intends to be a contribution to the comparative investigation of the beginnings of Central European historiography. In the decades preceeding the first millennium Christian missionary activity was successful in all of centers. After the conversion to Christianity the first literary works and genres appeared. All of enumerated works were written at the turn of the 11—12th cc. Besides the coincidence in time many similarities as well as differences can be identified in the structure and atmosphere of these works. The most striking, though not the most important difference is that the PVL was written in Slavonic whereas the other in Latin. Among the similarities it is to be underlined that early historiography and the first chroniclers have strong contacts to the courts of princes (kings). Thus it was their main purpose in their works to present the interests of the dynasties.

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