THE HISTORICAL SOURCES OF THE HISTORY OF THE ORTHODOX COMMUNITIES IN BYELORUSSIA IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 16TH – THE FIRST HALF OF THE 17TH CENTURY
The fact that the majority of the archives of the orthodox communities disappeared on the territory of the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth makes it very difficult to study the history of the communities. The Ukrainian communities are in the better situation: only the archives of the Lviv Assumption, the Lutsk Exaltation of the Holy Cross, and the Kiev Epiphany Communities were published densely. The archives of other communities have only separate groups of documents available. The author of the article searched and analyzed types of the published historical sources to study the orthodox communities in Byelorussia in the period of the 2nd half of the 16th – the 1st half of the 17th century.
Keywords: the orthodox communities, historical sources, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the history of Byelorussia of the 2nd half of the 16th – the 1st half of the 17th century, archaeographical volumes
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Issue: 9, 2010
Series of issue: Issue 9
Rubric: Source Study and Historiography
Pages: 87 — 91
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