Abstract

<p>The tradition of studying Spanish Renaissance in Russia is quite a complicated phenomenon, which requires a detailed analysis. The main questions which arise when referring to the issue are those of developmental patterns and interdisciplinary aspect of the letter. Spanish Renaissance culture is traditionally the subject to scrutiny for historians, philologists and art historians. The present article aims to outline a preliminary picture of interdisciplinary interaction, which gained momentum in the Soviet period of Russian Hispanism. Special attention is paid to the imminent figures of Spanish Renaissance historiography, as well as their ideas and concepts. The evolution of Spanish Renaissance studies is described against the background of the principal research areas. The present paper will be of interest to both intellectual historians and scholars investigating Renaissance and medieval history.</p>

Highlights

  • Spanish Renaissance is a subject to multiple disciplines, there are numerous interpretations and methods to study this phenomenon

  • The present paper covers the period between the early 20th century and the 1980s, which became crucial in Russian tradition of studying Spanish Renaissance culture

  • Political history is inevitably analyzed through the prism of class struggle, general history being understood as "politics capsized into the past"

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Spanish Renaissance is a subject to multiple disciplines, there are numerous interpretations and methods to study this phenomenon. In this paper we intend to provide an overall scheme of the basic stages in investigating Spanish Renaissance phenomena by Soviet scholars. We aim to analyze Spanish Renaissance and its interpretation by representatives of various fields of knowledge, including philology, history, and art history. Spanish Renaissance is represented as an element of Soviet Renaissance study in general. Being closely connected with medieval era, Spanish Renaissance should be studied in relation with this epoch, works by Soviet medieval scholars are of paramount importance. The present paper covers the period between the early 20th century and the 1980s, which became crucial in Russian tradition of studying Spanish Renaissance culture

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