The collection is devoted to the culture of antiquity, the relationship of spiritual life and social relations, some features of the ideology of ancient societies; the formation of political, social and legal theories in the Middle Ages, as well as at the turning point of antiquity and the Middle Ages. Studies on the culture of the Renaissance show various currents of humanistic thought, the fate of Renaissance culture in the era of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, reflection in the ideology of social and political movements of the era. For specialists and everyone interested in the history of culture and social thought.