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Portraits of Medieval Eastern Europe provides imagined biographies of twenty different figures from all walks of life living in Eastern Europe from 900 to 1400. Moving beyond the usual boundaries of speculative history, the book presents innovative and creative interpretations of the people, places, and events of medieval Eastern Europe and provides an insight into medieval life from Scandinavia to Byzantium.
Each chapter explores a different figure and together they present snapshots of life across a wide range of different social backgrounds. Among the figures are both imagined and historical characters, including the Byzantine Princess Anna Porphyrogenita, a Jewish traveller, a slave, the Mongol general Sübodei, a woman from Novgorod, and a Rus' pilgrim. A range of different narrative styles are also used throughout the book, from omniscient third-person narrators to diary entries, letters, and travel accounts.
By using primary sources to construct the lives of, and give a voice to, the types of people who existed within medieval European history, Portraits of Medieval Eastern Europe provides a highly accessible introduction to the period. Accompanied by a new and interactive companion website, it is the perfect teaching aid to support and excite students of medieval Eastern Europe.
Contents
List of figures
List of maps
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction - Donald Ostrowski
PART 1: Rus' and Northern Europe
"The Widow Princess of Minsk" - Inés García de la Puente
"Anna, A Woman of Novgorod" - Eve Levin
"Prince Vladimir of Pskov" - Anti Selart
Mother of a Tribal Häme Warrior - Kuutamo Hyväneuvo - Mari Isoaho
"From Butcher to Saint: The Improbable Life and Fate of Vaišvilkas/Vojšelk/Lavryš/Elisej of Lithuania and Black Rus' (? -1267)" - David M. Goldfrank
PART 2: Eurasian Steppe
"The Rare and Excellent History of Konchak (A Polovtsian Chieftain)" - Donald Ostrowski
"Sübedei Ba'atar: Portait of a Mongol General" - Timothy May
PART 3: Byzantium and Southeastern Europe
"Anna Komnene: Princess, Historian, & Conspirator?" - Leonora Neville
"Angel on Earth and Heavenly Man—St. Sava of Serbia" - Florin Curta
"Paulus de Breberio banus Croatorum dominus et Bosne" - Neven Budak
"King Miliutin and His Many Marriages" - Vlada Stanković
PART 4: Central Europe
"Henry Zdík, Bishop of Olomouc and Premonstratensian" - Lisa Wolverton
"King Béla IV of Hungary: A Monarch in a Period of Crisis and Recovery" - Balázs Nagy
"Zalava, Slave in the Kingdom of Hungary" - Cameron Sutt
"Jan Długosz on King Władysław Jagiełło's Master Chef and the Invention of Bigos" - Paul Milliman
PART 5: Travelers to Strange Lands
"The Travels of Gorm in Eastern Europe" - Heidi Sherman-Lelis and Arnold Lelisx
"Anna Porphyrogenita, Byzantine Princess and Queen of the Rus'" - Susana Torres Prieto
"The Journeys of My Soul in the Land of Canaan, by Yitshak ben Sirota" - Isaiah Gruber
"Agent of Change: Evpraksia Vsevolodovna between Emperor and Papacy" - Christian A. Raffensperger
"Fotii, a Rus' Pilgrim to Constantinople" - Monica White
Conclusion - Christian A. Raffensperger
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