Reimagining Europe
Title | Reimagining Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Christian Raffensperger |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2012-03-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0674065468 |
Main description: An overriding assumption has long directed scholarship in both European and Slavic history: that Kievan Rus' in the tenth through twelfth centuries was part of a Byzantine commonwealth separate from Europe. Christian Raffensperger refutes this conception and offers a new frame for two hundred years of history, one in which Rus' is understood as part of medieval Europe and East is not so neatly divided from West. With the aid of Latin sources, the author brings to light the considerable political, religious, marital, and economic ties among European kingdoms, including Rus', restoring a historical record rendered blank by Rusianmonastic chroniclers as well as modern scholars ideologically motivated to build barriers between East and West. Further, Raffensperger revises the concept of a Byzantine Commonwealth that stood in opposition to Europe-and under which Rus' was subsumed-toward that of a Byzantine Ideal esteemed and emulated by all the states of Europe. In this new context, appropriation of Byzantine customs, law, coinage, art, and architecture in both Rus' and Europe can be understood as an attempt to gain legitimacy and prestige by association with the surviving remnant of the Roman Empire. Reimagining Europe initiates an expansion of history that is sure to challenge ideas of Russian exceptionalism and influence the course of European medieval studies.
Kievan Russia
Title | Kievan Russia PDF eBook |
Author | George Vernadsky |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 436 |
Release | 1973-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780300016475 |
Looks at the history of Russia during the Kievan period, from 862 to 1237.
The Hagiography of Kievan Rusʹ
Title | The Hagiography of Kievan Rusʹ PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Hollingsworth |
Publisher | Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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Among the finest products of early Ukrainian literature were the Lives of the first Rus' saints. Hollingsworth provides a lucid introduction that discusses each saint and his or her cult in the historical as well as social contexts and examines the literary and textual features of the Rus' vitae.
Russian History: A Very Short Introduction
Title | Russian History: A Very Short Introduction PDF eBook |
Author | Geoffrey Hosking |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 177 |
Release | 2012-03-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199580987 |
A leading international authority discusses all aspects of Russian history, from the struggle by the state to control society to the transformation of the nation into a multi-ethnic empire, Russia's relations with the West and the post-Soviet era. Original.
Sermons and Rhetoric of Kievan Rus'
Title | Sermons and Rhetoric of Kievan Rus' PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Church Slavic literature |
ISBN | 9781932650082 |
The authors included in this volume, Ilarion, Klim Smoljatic and Kirill of Turov, are remarkable for both their personal and literary achievements. Simon Franklin prefaces the texts with a substantial introduction that places each of the three authors in their historical context.
Ties of Kinship
Title | Ties of Kinship PDF eBook |
Author | Christian Raffensperger |
Publisher | Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781932650136 |
"Describes and analyzes the dynastic marriages of the descendants of Volodimer, the first ruler of Kyivan Rus', across medieval Europe from the tenth through the twelfth centuries and presents more than twenty-two genealogical charts with accompanying bibliographic information"--
The Origins of the Slavic Nations
Title | The Origins of the Slavic Nations PDF eBook |
Author | Serhii Plokhy |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 2010-08-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521155113 |
This 2006 book documents developments in the countries of eastern Europe, including the rise of authoritarian tendencies in Russia and Belarus, as well as the victory of the democratic 'Orange Revolution' in Ukraine, and poses important questions about the origins of the East Slavic nations and the essential similarities or differences between their cultures. It traces the origins of the modern Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian nations by focusing on pre-modern forms of group identity among the Eastern Slavs. It also challenges attempts to 'nationalize' the Rus' past on behalf of existing national projects, laying the groundwork for understanding of the pre-modern history of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. The book covers the period from the Christianization of Kyivan Rus' in the tenth century to the reign of Peter I and his eighteenth-century successors, by which time the idea of nationalism had begun to influence the thinking of East Slavic elites.