Middle Ages

The author of this article study a teaching of middle ages history in the Saratov University. This article consider a merit of saratov's historians in the investigation of German history in the middle age. The author use in his work a publish material and his personal remembrances, because he was in contact with everybody of historians-germanists in Saratov University.

The arms and armour of the Byzantine warriors are studied in the article as it was shown by David Nicolle, a well known English historian of medieval history.

The article describes the value of Raffelstetten customs regulations for history of Great Moravia. The Danube trading ways were an important component of Moravian economic development. The studied material led to the conclusion that the trade of Great Moravia was intensive and had a wide geographical area.

The article deals with the evolution of relationship between the towns of Netherlands (mainly Flanders) during the XIV – middle XV centuries. The research of great town revolts shows gradual decrease of mutual support in the case of political crisis that could be caused by the increased power of the “central government” along with the rising number of economical and political contradictions which always existed between towns and regions of the Low Countries.