Reformation and the “Confession-Building” in Early Modern Poland: Historiographical Representation of the Basic Research Areas

Codrul Cosminului

Stanislav Cherkasov¹ 

[1] Zaporizhzhya National University (Ukraine);

关键词: Reformation;    Confession;    Poland;    Historiography;    Modern Times;    Methodological instruments;    Positivist approach;    Modernist approach;    Postmodernist approach;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The article is an attempt to detect the key stages in the research of the Polish Reformation history and to investigate how these stages changed over time.The main groups of the works in the Polish, German, Russian and American historiography were analysed. Based on the primary conceptual approaches and using the chronological principle five main stages of the Polish Reformation historiography development were defined, within which various concepts for the analysis of the historical phenomenon were used. This paper analyses the main features of the Protestant Reformation historiographical tradition, of the positivist, the modernist and the postmodernist approaches to the Polish Reformation history. The author determined that the change of the main approaches to the issue depended on the ideological context and transformations of the dominant historiographical tradition, which influenced the generally accepted interpretations of the historical phenomenon. The second aim of the current research was to explore new horizons for the future studies on the Polish Reformation history. The author noted that one of the most important current research tasks is to find a suitable set of methodological instruments for the research, combining conventional historiographical approaches with the postmodern “Confessionalization” theory, which is still “under construction”.

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