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

A Study of Sources

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2013-10-10
Mått155 x 235 x 18 mm
Vikt481 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieEast Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450
Antal sidor204
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004259829

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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).

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