Christianity, as a set of ideas and an institutional state, is formed in the practical vocabulary of its time — the early principate, the semantics of which is influenced by the meaning of some terms and their use, established and wellestablished in the era of Hellenism.
The article examines the change in the category of citizenship, which lost its original meaning in the dominant era, with a change in political practice, and almost completely lost its meaning in the Middle Ages, with the radical transformation of the foundations of social organization in the European civilizational area.

The experience of describing the corpus of cyrillic printed books of the 16–18th, belonging to three regions, allowed to introduce several thousand sources into scientific circulation and raise fundamental issues of classification and further study of book culture. Several thousand sources were introduced into scientific circulation, which allowed for the first time to raise or solve fundamental issues of book culture, traditionally defining not only spiritual, but also and the state life of Russia.
The article offers an excursion into the history of the study of the distribution of cyrillic old printed books in the 16–18th and the methodology of their description developed by the staff of the Archeographic Laboratory of the Lomonosov Moscow State University. The purpose of this study is to disseminate the positive experience gained from the theoretical and practical application of the methodology for further work on cataloging and describing cyrillic printed books in other regions of the Russian Federation.

The book "Revelations of Blessed Angela" ("The Phenomenon of the gifts of the Almighty sent down in the Spirit of Blessed Mother Angela of Foligno", hereinafter — "Revelations...") as a historical source attracts very little attention in Russian literature, and in Western literature all research is focused around the religious component of revelations, the cult of the personality of God. Angela and the questions of finding the unknown and mystical in her visions. For some, bl. Angela is a real saint, for others she is a woman who suffered from hysteria, and all her visions are the fruit of a sick fantasy.
The work analyzed the first two parts of the book "Revelations..." by bl. Angela, which are key to understanding the teaching. The experience described in the chapters on visions is closely related to the problem of authorship. Solving the issue of authorship may provide an opportunity to take a fresh look at historical time and similar works. It is proposed to consider the book as evidence of an attempt to create a cult of the holy new formation, which turned out to be very successful: under the developed doctrine of salvation, the life of the saint was compiled, who directly accepted divine revelations, fully confirming the views of certain groups of spirituals in the Franciscan order.

The purpose of the proposed article is to reveal the content and study using paleographic methods and analysis of the historical and cultural context of the original letter of Tsar Peter I, unknown to date, which touches on the fate of one of the founders of the Vygovsky Old Believer community — Daniil Vikulin. The purpose of this article is to show the source value of the newly found unique document, as well as to emphasize the factual nature of Ivan Filippov’s "History of the Vygovsky Monastery", which has been the only source on this topic up to now. The newly found letter sheds new light on the circumstances of Daniil Vikulin’s arrest and release.