Nature and the Image of Princely Power in Kievan Rus’, 980-1054

A Study of Sources

AvWalter K. Hanak

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

Del 25 i serien East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450

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In The Nature and the Image of Princely Power in Kievan Rus', 980-1054, Walter K. Hanak offers a critical analysis of the annalistic, literary, and other works that provide rich if conflicting and contradictory information on the nature of princely power and their image or literary representations. The primary sources demonstrate an interaction between the reality and the notions concerning princely power and how this power generates an image of itself. The author also analyses the textual incongruities that appear to be a reflection of a number of currents -- Byzantine, Varangian, Khazar, and Eastern Slavic. The secondary sources provide a variety of interpretations, which Hanak seeks to uphold and dispute. His stress, however, is to view this evidence in the light of a newly Christianized state and the launching of a maturative process in its early history.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2013-10-10
Mått:155 x 235 x 18 mm
Vikt:481 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450
Antal sidor:204
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004259829

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Walter K. Hanak, Ph.D. (1973), Indiana University, Bloomington, is Professor of History, Emeritus, Shepherd University. He has expertise in the fields of Byzantine, Medieval Slavic, and Medieval Islamic History. He has published monographs and articles on Byzantine and Medieval Slavic topics. His most recent monograph, a major study of sources, with Marios Philippides, is The Siege and the Fall of Constantinople in 1453: Historiography, Topography, and Military Studies (Ashgate, 2011).

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"Through this review of problematic sources, at once panoramic and focused on specific questions, [Hanak] has opened up an important new approach to the enigmas of early Rus ... The markers he has set out for further investigations will surely stand."Jonathan Shepard, University of Oxford, Early Medieval Europe, Vol. 24, no. 3, 2016

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Abbreviations ... ixPreface ... xiAcknowledgments ... xvMaps ... xvii1 The Nature and the Early Rus’ Image of Kievan Princely Power ... 12 Byzantine Imperial Thought in Theory and Practice in Vladimirian-Jaroslavian Rus’ ... 713 The Decline of the Varangians ... 1074 The Khazars in the Shadows of Kievan Political Thought ... 1355 The Eastern Slavic Political and Social Structure ... 1496 Some Conclusions ... 167Bibliography ... 171Index