Christian church in the works of Cosma from Praha, Gall Anonymous and Nestor-Chronicle

The purpose of the article is to study the representation in the medieval sources of the history of Christian monasticism. The subject of the study became the content of Czech, Polish and Old Rus` chronicles. They were created at the beginning of the XII century by the Nestor-Chronicle, Cosma from Prahaand Gall Anonymous. These chronicles were of a religious nature. They were united by the Christian ideology. But the main attention in these works turned to the statebuilding process in the Polish, Czech and Old Russian lands. The author applied historical-comparative and problem-chronological methods. With this, the peculiarities of consideration in the medieval literature of the development of Christian monasticism in Poland, the Czech and in Rus` were clarified. Attention is drawn to the consideration in the chronicles of the activities of individual figures of Christianity, their relationship with each other and with the authorities, the relationship of monarchs with the church, the emergence of monasteries, the struggle of monasticism with paganism, and so on. It is concluded that these works represent the entire spectrum of functions of medieval monasticism – missionary activity, participation in colonization processes, and so on