dr Piotr Kręzel

Section 26.: Chronographies and letopises. Historical literature of the Byzantine-Slavic cultural circles in the Middle Ages. Sources from the eastern periphery of the Piasts’ power territory

The Kievan Synopsis is the Church Slavonic historiographical text presenting the history of Kiev and Rus lands from its semi-legendary beginnings in 9th century to the era of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and beginning of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. This Chronicle, published in Kiev in 1674 (next editions 1678 and 1680), is the first modern Ukrainian lecture on native history, presented against the background of Eastern European history. The purpose of this paper is to present the concepts of medieval history of the southern Rus history, which have been placed in the Kievan Synopsis. Paying attention to both the sources of historical knowledge for the 1674 compilation and establishing its probable authorship (Innokenty Gizel). On the one hand, the ideological evolution of this East Slavonic historiographic text will be traced, and on the other, its ideological dimension.