The problem of legitimacy of the power of princes in society in middle ages

6 1980s - early 1990s At the peak of historiographic interest in the problems of ethnic identity and the image of the “other Middle Ages”, attempts were made to apply the methods developed on the material of the new time and to medieval, including Old Russian, literature. The current generation of historians was no longer satisfied with the positivistic methodology, new paths of research were determined through the methods of historical anthropology1.