Perception of Diseases by Old Rusian Chroniclers of 11th–15th Centuries

This research is concerned with the problem of perception of individual’s disease. The main purpose of this study is to describe how the Old Rusian tradition of perception and depiction of human disease took its shape and evolved since XI until the first half of the XV cc. This research considers relations between human disease, sin and it’s retribution. The other goal of this research is studying human disease as a part of the process of preparation to the “good death”. Main primary sources of the study are the Old Rus' Chronicles and the slavic translation of the Chronicle of George Hamartolos. First chapter concerns the main types of the disease’s depiction in the early Old Rus' Chronicles, second chapter compares the ways of diseases’ perception in Old Rusian and Byzantine historical works, third chapter analyzes the main types of the disease’s depiction in the Old Rus' Chronicles of XIV-XV сс. and draws some conclusions about dynamics of the diseases’ perception.