The historiographical and archaeological evidence of autonomy and rebellion in Chersōn: a defense of the revisionist analysis of Vladimir’s baptism (987-989)
Journal: University of Birmingham Institutional Research Archive (University of Birmingham)
Year: 2013

The conversión of Vladimir, grand prince of Kiev, to Eastem Christianity was a watershed in world history, although the exact reasons for his conversión and the precise nature of the relationship he had with the Byzantine Empire at the time have been misrepresented by generations of historians, eager to present the episode in a manner which essentially glorifies Vladimir the Russian as the master of his own political and religious agendas and denigrates the Byzantine role for its supposed duplic