Medieval Rus’ and Early Modern Russia: Texts and Contexts

✍ Scribed by Susana Torres Prieto, Andrei Franklin

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 274
• Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Frontispiece
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Foreword by Andrei Franklin and Susana Torres Prieto
List of Abbreviations
List of Archives and Libraries
Part I: Use of Byzantine Models and Sources
Chapter 1: Leo VI and the Transformation of Byzantine Strategic Thinking about the Rus’
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 2: Who Was ‘Theodore the Rhos from a Family of Emperors’, the Owner of the Stone from the Holy Sepulchre?
Anthologia Marciana
‘A Precious Stone from the Holy Sepulchre of Christ’
Restoration of Christ’s Tomb
‘Theodore from the Family of Emperors’
The Mstislav Gospel
‘Of Imperial Kin’
‘The Cornerstone Carried as Foundation’
Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 3: Cosmos, Calendars, and Medical Advice in the Miscellanies of the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius and Their Late Byzantine Counterparts (14th to Early 16th Centuries)
Medical Calendars in the Manuscripts of the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius
Cosmography and Medical Calendars in the Byzantine Tradition
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 4: Holy Foolishness and Gender Transgression in Russian Hagiography from the Middle Ages to Modernity
Introduction
Andrei of Constantinople
Feodor/a of Alexandria
Andrei/Kseniia of St. Petersburg
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Part II: Historiography and Construction of Historical Narratives
Chapter 5: Some Unnoticed Greek Quotes in Old Russian Chronicles
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 6: Retranslating The Rus’ Primary Chronicle: Perspectives on Horace Lunt’s New Rendering
Notes
Bibliography
Rusian Chronicle Texts
Old Church Slavonic Texts
Secondary literature
Chapter 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
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 8: Patriarch Germanus II of Constantinople and the Slavic World
Introduction
Acts of the Council of Nicaea – Nymphea (1234)
Synodal Epistle on the Movements of Bishops (c. 1226)
Synodal Decree on Slaves to Metropolitan Kirill I of Kyiv (1228)
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 9: Thoughtful Agglomeration: Late Byzantine Sources for Muscovite Ceremonial
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 10: Boris Godunov and His Family in the Mirror of Medieval Russian Polyonymy
Notes
Bibliography
Part III: Material Supports of Written Texts
Chapter 11: “I Must Be Cruel Only to Be Kind”: Towards a Literary History of Kyiv Graffito No. 108
Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 12: Muscovite Acquisition of Books from Poland in the Late 1640s to Early 1650s
Notes
Bibliography
17th-century publications
Modern source publications and studies
Chapter 13: The Codex in Early Rus’ between the 11th and 15th Centuries: Variations of Form and Variations of Function
Form and Function
The Experience of the First Centuries
Monastic Revival
Books Not for Reading
Notes
Bibliography
Part IV: Social Repercussions of the Graphosphere
Chapter 14: Sofiia Vitovtovna’s Dance: The Wedding of Vasilii II in Russian Cultural Memory
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 15: Revolution in the Pictosphere: The Ukrainian Baroque and Muscovite Reception
Notes
Bibliography
Index