This article discusses the possibility of using works of the fantasy genre as sources for historical research. The interrelation of theories of the emergence of a medieval city projected on modern fi lms, video games and TV series, provided they are used and interpreted as a special kind of sources, can be useful for academic historical science. The main attention in the article is paid to the concept of “fantasy” used in modern philology, as well as examples with which it is possible to present works of the fantasy genre quite organically as an object of scientific historical research.
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