Published: 2023-03-05

Description of omens in the Chronicle of Novgorod

Anastasiia V. Mishchuk Logo ORCID , Yuliia Rudenko Logo ORCID , Maryna O. Dei Logo ORCID , Iryna S. Skliar Logo ORCID , Natalia Kovalchuk Logo ORCID

Abstract

The author of the article is interested in the attitude of the medieval person towards various astronomical phenomena, their aspiration to characterize these phenomena, to point out their connection with the historical events of the Novgorod Republic. The relevance of the study of our subject is that the analysis of the descriptions of omens in medieval literature, including chronicles, is poorly researched by well-known historians and mediaevalists. The purpose of the work is to find, examine, and analyze what omens the medieval person drew attention to, how they reacted to them, and how these are recorded in the chronicles. Methods such as descriptive, comparative, and comparative and collation were used in the article. Fragments of the Chronicle of Novgorod describing various celestial omens were collected and analyzed in the article. The novelty of the research is that the analysis of celestial omens recorded in the Chronicle of Novgorod has not been performed before, and they have not been given much importance in the interpretation of ancient records.

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Mishchuk, A. V., Rudenko, Y., Dei, M. O., Skliar, I. S., & Kovalchuk, N. (2023). Description of omens in the Chronicle of Novgorod. Przegląd Rusycystyczny [Russian Studies Review], (1 (181), 86–107. https://doi.org/10.31261/pr.13776

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No. 1 (181) (2023)
Published: 2023-03-05


ISSN: 0137-298X
Ikona DOI 10.31261/pr

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Polskie Towarzystwo Rusycystyczne oraz Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego

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