Medieval Rus' and Early Modern Russia (eBook, ePUB)

Texts and Contexts
Redaktion: Torres Prieto, Susana; Franklin, Andrei

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Research on the East Slavs in the medieval period has considerably changed since the collapse of the Soviet Union. 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000836059
• Artikelnr.: 67502702

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Section I: Use of Byzantine models and sources
1. Leo VI and the Transformation of Byzantine Strategic Thinking about
the Rus'
2. Who Was 'Theodore the Rhos from a Family of Emperors', the Owner of
the Stone from the Holy Sepulchre?
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. Holy Foolishness and Gender Transgression in Russian Hagiography from
the Middle Ages to Modernity
Section II: Historiography and Construction of Historical Narratives
5. Some Unnoticed Greek Quotes in Old Russian Chronicles
6. Retranslating the Rus¿ Primary Chronicle: Perspectives on Horace
Lunt's New Rendering
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. Patriarch Germanus II of Constantinople and the Slavic world
9. Thoughtful Agglomeration: Late Byzantine Sources for Muscovite
Ceremonial
10. Boris Godunov and his family in the mirror of medieval Russian
polyonymy
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. Muscovite Acquisition of Books from Poland in the Late 1640s-Early
1650s
13. The Codex in Early Rus' between the 11th-15th centuries: variations
of form and variations of function
Section IV: Social Repercussions of the Graphosphere
14. Sofiia Vitovtovna's Dance: The Wedding of Vasilii II in Russian
Cultural Memory
15. Revolution in the Pictosphere: The Ukrainian Baroque and Muscovite
Reception