The science of the historical past currently presents researchers with such diverse and complex tasks that their solution requires a very large amount of knowledge, a broad outlook, and mastery of various specialties of the humanities cycle. This is especially true for those who deal with the problems of the Middle Ages, where there are few sources and each of them has to be studied comprehensively, while attracting written monuments, archaeological materials, works of fine art, architecture, etc. Of course, each branch of historical science has its own specifics, its own range of sources, its own methodology and technique research, but only a comprehensive use of all sources using different methods can provide full-fledged conclusions. And the guiding principle of research should be the principle of historicism, the natural development of humanity, its culture. All of this applies directly to acad. To Dmitry Sergeyevich Likhachev. A philologist, a literary critic by profession, he is a wide-profile historian of scientific interests, erudition, problems, and methodology of his works. In his book" The Emergence of Russian Literature", he wrote: "The history of literature is a part of the history of culture (without any dissolution of its specifics), and the history of culture is a part of historical science as a whole, and this circumstance again makes it easier for us to study literary development, helps us fill in the missing links"1 . Thus, the researcher himself declares his close connection with historical science, and all his work confirms this. Thanks to Likhachev, many monuments of medieval writing were published. They are published in the proceedings of the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and in the series "Literary Monuments". Sometimes Likhachev prepares the texts for publication himself, and sometimes his students and collaborators under his editorship do so. But there is always a creative participati ... Читать далее