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Formation of the new research and academic group at the History Department

With pleasure, we inform you, that a new research and academic group associated with Medieval Studies will appear at the St. Petersburg Department of History.
In 2020-2021 the research and academic group

Formation of the new research and academic group at the History Department


«Languages for Describing the Other in Early Modern Europe: Social Contexts and Repertoires of Interpretation» will work on a project whose main activity is the translation, comparison and discursive analysis of a block of certain sources that shed light on the issues of identifying universal language mechanisms for describing the European “other ” in the Early Modern Time and contextualizing European “ethnographic” knowledge. The RAG will carry out its activities under the direct supervision of A. A Selin. E. A. Khvalkov and F. E. Levin will also coordinate the work of the group.


The research academic group sets the goal of completing following tasks:
  1. To compare language and content features of individual texts
  2. To demonstrate the influence of biblical ethnography, medieval political theory, ancient ethnography / political theory on the texts studied and identify common interpretation repertoires
  3. To identify the social and political contexts behind individual texts and find their similarities or differences.

Research and academic group participants: 
Baigushev Sergey Vasilievich, 3-d year student
Zakrzhevskaya Julia Petrovna, 4-th year student
Zubkova Daria Antonovna, 3-d year student 
Kuznetsova Alyona Dmitrievna, 3 -d year student 
Paramonov Gleb Andreevich, 3-d year student 
Shisterova Alexandra Denisovna, 3-d year student 
Shkil Maxim Dmitrievich, 3-d year student 
Yakovleva Irina Dmitrievna, 3-d year student