Курс истории средневековой литературы в интерпретации Вл. А. Лукова

Abstract

The article describes theoretical and methodological approaches to literary studies advanced by the prominent Russian philologist and scholar of culture Vladimir Andreevich Lukov (1948–2014) while developing a course of medieval literature at the faculty of philology, Moscow State Pedagogical University. This course, as we show in the article, was influenced by the school of research started by the outstanding Russian medievalist Boris Ivanovich Purishev (1903–1989) at the Department of World Literature. Vl. A. Lukov’s important contribution to the school was in his focus on transitional epochs and transitional aesthetic phenomena. We pay attention to the original timeframe of medieval literature suggested by Vl. A. Lukov. It took the form of a “nine-century arch”, from archaic medievality (5–7th centuries CE), followed by the early Middle Ages (8–10th centuries) to High, or mature, Middle Ages (11–13th centuries). We conclude that Vladimir A. Lukov’s course on the history of medieval literature, in its syllabus, content and teaching, is of significant scholarly and practical importance for Russian medieval studies and pedagogy.