METHOD AND FEATURES OF CONDUCTING FIELD ARCHEOGRAPHIC EXPEDITIONS (ON THE EXAMPLE OF HEURISTICS OF SOURCES ON THE HISTORY OF ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH)

Comprehensive study of the confessional history of Belarus requires the implementation of the wide range of historical sources. In the article the main stages and methods of field archaeographic expeditions aimed at replenishing the source base for confessional history studies are taken into consideration on the example of the Central Scientific Archive of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus,. The locations of unique documents are described; the main factors that have affected their safety are characterised; the main methods that allow to identify these historical sources and introduce them into the scientific field are shown on the results of field work. The historical context of the preservation of documentary materials in the parishes of the Roman Catholic Church in Belarus is being reconstructed. The results of the field work show that a significant complex of historical sources is in the parish archives and is stored according to the traditional system that existed in the Roman Catholic tradition from the end of the XVIth century. Based on documents and materials discovered during the archaeological expedition, the archival collection 3C «Materials of field archaeographic expeditions» was created in the Central Scientific Archive of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, containing electronic copies of historical sources for the XIVth-mid-XXth centuries.

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