Natalya Starchenko

Natalya (Nataliya Petrivna) Starchenko is a Ukrainian historian, Doctor of Historical Sciences, and researcher of the early modern history of Ukraine and the legal culture of the nobility of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. She works primarily with the court books of Volhynia, the Bratslav region, and the Kyiv region from the second half of the 16th to the early 17th century. She is the author of the monographs “Honor, Blood, and Rhetoric: Conflict in the Noble Milieu of Volhynia” and “The Ukrainian Worlds of the Commonwealth: Stories About History” (Laurus, 2021).

In Vox Veritatis materials

Starchenko’s lecture “On the Early Modern History of Ukraine — with Pride and Without Bromide” (the “Historian Every Saturday” series) is used as a source in the article Self-Governing Ukraine: The Legal Tradition of the Commonwealth.