ABSTRACT
Research on the East Slavs in the medieval period has considerably changed since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The emergence of new states forced a rethinking of many aspects of the history and culture of the early East Slavs as the subject became increasingly disentangled from the umbrella of Byzantine studies and fruitful collaboration was fostered between scholars worldwide. This book, which brings together scholars from Russia, Ukraine, western Europe and North America, of several generations, presents a broad overview of the main results of the last three decades of research and mutual collaboration. This is important work, providing a much-needed counterbalance to studies of western Europe in the period, which has been the main focus of study, with the lands of the East Slavs relatively neglected.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|66 pages
Use of Byzantine Models and Sources
part II|81 pages
Historiography and Construction of Historical Narratives
chapter 6|11 pages
Retranslating The Rus' Primary Chronicle
chapter 7|15 pages
Two Emperors of the Princess Olga's Visit to Constantinople
part III|56 pages
Material Supports of Written Texts
chapter 11|14 pages
“I Must Be Cruel Only to Be Kind”
chapter 13|22 pages
The Codex in Early Rus' between the 11th and 15th Centuries
part IV|44 pages
Social Repercussions of the Graphosphere