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

A Study of Sources
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-04-25982-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 25, 204 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

Reihe: East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hanak, Walter K

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Abbreviations. ix
Preface. xi
Acknowledgments. xv
Maps. xvii

1 The Nature and the Early Rus’ Image of Kievan Princely Power. 1
2 Byzantine Imperial Thought in Theory and Practice in Vladimirian-Jaroslavian Rus’. 71
3 The Decline of the Varangians. 107
4 The Khazars in the Shadows of Kievan Political Thought. 135
5 The Eastern Slavic Political and Social Structure. 149
6 Some Conclusions. 167

Bibliography. 171
Index

Über Autor(innen)

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).