The concept of «runestone» in present runology studies.
Keywords:
runestone, memorial literacy, historical memory, runologist, scientific researchesAbstract
In the article research interest is considered in definition of concept-category terminology of runology research. The concept of «runestone» is received varying interpretations in works of scholars of several branches of human knowledge. Researchers understand it from an individual visual display of the aims of the commissioner to the unique «means of mass media» which is fixed historical memory. The main attention concentrates on consideration and the analysis of contexts of «runestone» in works of European researchers. It is defined that historians and archeologists understand runology monuments as the bright «associative tool» of fixing of social memory and runologist emphasize an authentic «oral tradition» of stones. The definition of the «runestone» is given as the result of research.References
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