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Medieval Rus’ and Early Modern Russia Texts and Contexts

Edited By Susana Torres Prieto, Andrei Franklin Copyright 2023
    274 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    274 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge
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    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.

              Section I: Use of Byzantine models and sources

    1. Leo VI and the Transformation of Byzantine Strategic Thinking about the Rus’

      2. Monica White

    2. Who Was ‘Theodore the Rhos from a Family of Emperors’, the Owner of the Stone from the Holy Sepulchre?

      3. Oleksiy Tolochko

    3. Cosmos, Calendars and Medical Advice in the Miscellanies of the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius and their Late Byzantine Counterparts (14th-early 16th centuries)

      4. Ann-Laurance Caudano

    4. Holy Foolishness and Gender Transgression in Russian Hagiography from the Middle Ages to Modernity

      5. Nick Mayhew

      Section II: Historiography and Construction of Historical Narratives

    5. Some Unnoticed Greek Quotes in Old Russian Chronicles

      6. Sergey A. Ivanov

    6. Retranslating the Rus′ Primary Chronicle: Perspectives on Horace Lunt’s New Rendering

      7. Michael S. Flier

    7. Two emperors of the princess Olga’s visit to Constantinople: Constantine VII Porphyrogenitos versus John Tzimiskes in the copies of the Rus’ Primary Chronicle

      8. Tatiana Vilkul

    8. Patriarch Germanus II of Constantinople and the Slavic world

      9. Maria V. Korogodina

    9. Thoughtful Agglomeration: Late Byzantine Sources for Muscovite Ceremonial

      10. Alexandra Vukovich

    10. Boris Godunov and his family in the mirror of medieval Russian polyonymy

      11. Anna Litvina and Fjodor B. Uspenskij

      Section III: Material Supports of Written Texts

    11. "I must be cruel only to be kind": towards a literary history of Kyiv graffito No. 108

      12. Aleksey A. Gippius

    12. Muscovite Acquisition of Books from Poland in the Late 1640s–Early 1650s

      13. Daniel C. Waugh and Olena Janssen

    13. The Codex in Early Rus’ between the 11th-15th centuries: variations of form and variations of function

      14. Dmitrii Bulanin

      Section IV: Social Repercussions of the Graphosphere

    14. Sofiia Vitovtovna’s Dance: The Wedding of Vasilii II in Russian Cultural Memory

      15. Sergei Bogatyrev

    15. Revolution in the Pictosphere: The Ukrainian Baroque and Muscovite Reception

    Valerie Kivelson

    Biography

    Susana Torres Prieto is an Associate Professor of Humanities at IE University, Madrid/Segovia Andrei Franklin is a freelance researcher, proofreader and translator

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