Talk:Letopis (genre)

Classification of letopises into northern, western and southern

I will write this section later. The fact is that the history of ancient Russia was heterogeneous; each principality had its own historiography. I will try to briefly state this idea, without stretching the content. Noraskulk (talk) 11:29, 14 April 2021 (UTC).

Zamaleyev

Alexander Zamaleev describes the concept of the chronicle as follows:
1. Features of the letopis. Letopis, that is, in fact, the annual record of events, is a complex collection, a "svod", containing a wide variety of materials - from a note about the appearance of a comet or a locust invasion to lengthy narratives about the activities of knyazes or church hierarchs. However, behind the seemingly random selection of events, there is a completely definite idea: the letopenist takes into account only what is significant in the context of the "epiphany," the action of a higher power on the life of the state and the people. Above everyone and everything hangs "the whip of God", no one can evade "God's observation". God punishes the sins of knyazes especially severely: after all, they are responsible not only for themselves, but also for ordinary people.

2. Providentialism. In the annals, providentialism is complemented by precedent thinking: everything that happened before is taken as a yardstick for assessing the present. For example, after the "unprecedented earthquake" in such and such a year, the "invasion of the nasty" immediately began. For the letopenist, this is a sign that natural and social phenomena are interconnected by a general pattern, and their correlation gives him (the letopenist) a thread to guess the future.

History of Russian culture. Translated into English by Sergei Sossinsky.

Requested move 23 April 2023

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: merged to Rus' chronicle. (closed by non-admin page mover) – MaterialWorks 19:11, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

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Letopis (genre) → Slavic chronicle – Letopis is not an English word used by most reliable sources to describe this subject. It appears in search results in titles, like Kievskaia letopis’ (Kyivan Chronicle). As far as I can tell, every English-language source cited in this article uses the word chronicle.  —Michael Z. 17:20, 23 April 2023 (UTC)

Oppose, not Slavic, because letopis is a Eastern Slavic name. In general I think that it's good to maintain unique, easily distinguishable name letopis. Marcelus (talk) 08:23, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

That’s contrary to WP:COMMONNAME, which says to use the most commonly used name in reliable sources.  —Michael Z. 08:35, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

I'm not exactly against the change, but certainly it shouldn't be called "Slavic chronicle" for the reason I gave above. Tbf I think we should merge with Rus' chronicle, and use the latter name. There is no reason to have two separate articles on the same topic. Marcelus (talk) 08:46, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

I would not oppose that either.  —Michael Z. 14:59, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

So maybe change the request? Marcelus (talk) 16:40, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

There is an open merge request at Talk:Rus’ chronicle#Merge Letopis (genre) → East Slavic chronicle. —Michael Z. 17:14, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

• Seems to me this should be merged with Rus' chronicle and limited to the East Slavic historiographical tradition. Srnec (talk) 20:55, 26 April 2023 (UTC)

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