Medieval Rus' and early modern Russia : texts and contexts, essays in honour of Simon C. Franklin / edited by Susana Torres Prieto and Andrei Franklin.

"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 umbrell...

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Other Authors: Franklin, Simon (honouree.), Torres Prieto, Susana (Editor, writer of foreward.), Franklin, Andrei (Editor, writer of foreward.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.
Series:Routledge studies in the history of Russia and Eastern Europe.
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Table of Contents:
  • List of figures
  • List of contributors
  • Foreword / by Andrei Franklin and Susana Torres Prieto
  • List of abbreviations
  • List of libraries and archives
  • Leo VI and the transformation of Byzantine strategic thinking about the Rus' / Monica White
  • Who was 'Theodore the Rhos from a family of emperors', the owner of the stone from the Holy Sepulchre? / Oleksiy Tolochko
  • Cosmos, calendars and medical advice in the miscellanies of the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius and their late Byzantine counterparts (14th-early 16th centuries) / Ann-Laurance Caudano
  • Holy foolishness and gender transgression in Russian hagiography from the Middle Ages to modernity / Nick Mayhew
  • Some unnoticed Greek quotes in old Russian Chronicles / Sergey A. Ivanov
  • Retranslating the Rus' Primary Chronicle: perspectives on Horace Lunt's new rendering / Michael S. Flier
  • Two emperors of the princess Olga's visit to Constantinople: Constantine VII Porphyrogenitos versus John Tzimiskes in the copies of the Rus' Primary Chronicle / Tatiana Vilkul
  • Patriarch Germanus II of Constantinople and the Slavic world / Maria V. Korogodina
  • Thoughtful agglomeration: late Byzantine sources for Muscovite ceremonial / Alexandra Vukovich
  • Boris Godunov and his family in the mirror of medieval Russian polyonymy / Anna Litvina and Fjodor B. Uspenskij
  • "I must be cruel only to be kind": towards a literary history of Kyiv graffito No. 108 / Aleksey A. Gippius
  • Muscovite acquisition of books from Poland in the late 1640s-Early 1650s / Daniel C. Waugh and Olena Janssen
  • The Codex in early Rus' between the 11th-15th centuries: variations of form and variations of function / Dmitrii Bulanin
  • Sofiia Vitovtovna's dance: the wedding of Vasilii II in Russian cultural memory / Sergei Bogatyrev
  • Revolution in the pictosphere: the Ukrainian Baroque and Muscovite reception / Valerie Kivelson
  • Index.