Происхождение и утверждение документа в Великом Княжестве Литовском в конце XIV - первой трети XVI в.

ENThe aim of the research is to find out the origin and to obtain the results of statement of a document at the early stages of its existing in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The following conclusions are made. The occurrence and statement of a document were related with the development of global social processes: laicization and pragmatisation of social consciousness and culture, and also with the originating of new cultural values. A document was involved in many complex communicative practices – secular, religious, not only written, but also oral ones. A document statement changed the society structure, the frame of the authority, governance and court, the methods of realisation by the authority its basic functions, the material environment of a user of a document, formed a special kind of social consciousness and culture in which the document was one of the main communication tools. Keywords: document, ritual, Grand Duchy of Lithuania, registers, clerks, chanceries, archives, oral tradition. [From the publication]