Full Description
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.
Contents
Section I: Use of Byzantine models and sources
Leo VI and the Transformation of Byzantine Strategic Thinking about the Rus'
Who Was 'Theodore the Rhos from a Family of Emperors', the Owner of the Stone from the Holy Sepulchre?
Cosmos, Calendars and Medical Advice in the Miscellanies of the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius and their Late Byzantine Counterparts (14th-early 16th centuries)
Holy Foolishness and Gender Transgression in Russian Hagiography from the Middle Ages to Modernity
Section II: Historiography and Construction of Historical Narratives
Some Unnoticed Greek Quotes in Old Russian Chronicles
Retranslating the Rus' Primary Chronicle: Perspectives on Horace Lunt's New Rendering
Two emperors of the princess Olga's visit to Constantinople: Constantine VII Porphyrogenitos versus John Tzimiskes in the copies of the Rus' Primary Chronicle
Patriarch Germanus II of Constantinople and the Slavic world
Thoughtful Agglomeration: Late Byzantine Sources for Muscovite Ceremonial
Boris Godunov and his family in the mirror of medieval Russian polyonymy
Section III: Material Supports of Written Texts
"I must be cruel only to be kind": towards a literary history of Kyiv graffito No. 108
Muscovite Acquisition of Books from Poland in the Late 1640s-Early 1650s
The Codex in Early Rus' between the 11th-15th centuries: variations of form and variations of function
Section IV: Social Repercussions of the Graphosphere
Sofiia Vitovtovna's Dance: The Wedding of Vasilii II in Russian Cultural Memory
Revolution in the Pictosphere: The Ukrainian Baroque and Muscovite Reception
