On the issue of dating Christian burials. (Review) Andrii Fylypchuk, Arkheolohiia khrystyianskykh nekropoliv litopysnoho Plisneska
Year: 2021
Type: book-review
Abstract: On the Issue Of DatIng ChrIstIan BurIals(Review) Andrii Fylypchuk, Arkheolohiia khrystyianskykh nekropoliv litopysnoho Plisneska [Archaeology of Christian necropolises of the chronicle's Plisnesk].Lviv 2020: Rastr-7, 136 pp.In the study of the beginnings of Rus', the funeral rites of the princely era are inextricably linked with the process of Christianization of the region.It is the nature of burials to function as a kind of marker in space and time, reflecting the degree of penetration of the new creed into the society of the period.At the same time, in some regions, the introduction of Christianity as a state ideology had certain features due to a number of factors, among which socio-political changes (reforms in the system of territorial division, state administration and taxation) are basic ones.Reforms aimed at "conquest or conversion of souls" were implemented more slowly, on the way to which obstacles had to be overcome in the form of age-old traditions and social mentalities with their own forms of mythological perception.At the dawn of the formation of proto-state Slavic groups, the Ukrainian Prykarpattia was the last region to lose its territorial and political independence.As a result of Prince Volodymyr's campaign against the Croats in 992/993, these territories became part of Rus', forming extensive lands of the grand-ducal domain.This event began an era of changes that lasted more than a century.In the context of the genesis of the new religious culture, processes that reflected the "restructuring" of spirituality and social consciousness are ex-
Source: Sprawozdania Archeologiczne
Authors: Vira Hupalo, Iryna Lucyk
Language: Polish
Subfield: Archeology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4206424567