The Chivalric Traditions and Their Receptions in Galician-Volynian State (13th – 14th centuries)
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https://doi.org/10.7596/taksad.v12i3.3240Keywords:
Chivalric traditions, Galicia-Volynian state, Romanids, Teutonic order, Rus', Tournament cultureAbstract
The influence of chivalric culture on the life of Rus’ian (Old Ukrainian) society in the 13th – 14th centuries still remains an unexplored problem. Over a long period of time Ukrainian historians were dependent in their judgments on their Russian colleagues. Only after gaining independence in 1991 it became possible to pay attention to this issue. The purpose of the article is to analyze the specificities of the perception of chivalric traditions in the Galicia-Volynian state of the XIII–XIV centuries (in medieval texts it was also noted as Rus’), to supplement theories on the influence of European chivalric culture on the rus’ian military elite. The main historical sources for the study were the Galician-Volynian Chronicle (the third part of the Hypatian codex) and separate medieval documents. In the article, the connections of the Galicia-Volynian rulers with the Teutonic Order, and a powerful knightly congregation of the Baltic region are investigated. This made it possible to establish the duration of alliance relations and demonstrate the familiarity of the Rus’ian elite with the diplomatic practice of European “bellatores”. The Hungarian kingdom and the Polish principalities, as other ways of familiarization with the knightly “world” in the state of the Romanids (Galician-Volynian dynasty) are characterized. Using the excerpts from Rus’ian’s chronicles the familiarity of Galician and Volynian medieval elites with the tournament culture and certain practices of the chivalric etiquette are shown. In the conclusion, the authors emphasize the importance of further research aimed at the discovery of new historical sources.
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