Scientific dialogue between A. Gurevich and J.-Cl. Schmitt

The object of the research is a scientific dialogue between the master of Russian medieval studies A. Gurevich and a representative of the fourth generation of the Annales school J.- Cl. Schmitt for 32 years (1979-2011). This process took place in parallel with the interaction of the Russian historian and J.-Cl. Schmitt’s teacher J. Le Goff. Special attention is paid to such aspects as a brief Russian historiography of J.-Cl. Schmitt 's work, the use of similar historical sources (first of all, exempla), mutual citation, work on similar publishing projects (interdisciplinary glossaries, collections of articles, yearbooks), participation in discussions about historical concepts, reliance on the results of each other's scientific work, etc. The article mentions the mutual popularization of Gurevich's work in French science and Schmitt's in Russian science. In the process of preparing the text of this article, problem-chronological and comparative methods were used within the framework of the concept of A. Lovejoy’s intellectual history. The novelty of the article is determined by the lack of special historiographical research on this topic. The results of the publication can be used in teaching courses on medieval studies and historiography of the modern history of Europe. As a result of the research of the scientific dialogue between A. Gurevich and J.- Cl. Schmitt, its periodization was proposed based on the following stages: 1) the use of the same type of historical sources exempla (examples) in the study of the features of medieval culture (1980-1990s.); 2) writing articles and editing interdisciplinary glossaries on medieval subjects in French and Russian, as well as participating in discussions about the individual and personality in the European Middle Ages (1990s – 2000s); 3) publishing translations of J.-Cl. Schmitt's articles edited by A. Gurevich, as well as a change in the research focus towards art criticism (2000s - 2010s). The Schmitt’s article «A. Gurevich and the category of time» (2011) is represented as a separate milestone. In this publication he discussed the concept of time as one of the categories of medieval culture with A. Gurevich and other Annalistes.