The beginnings of Russian history
Subtitle: an enquiry into sources
By: by N. K. Chadwick.
Publisher: AMS Press
Published: 1977
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780404146511
Subjects: Povestʹ vremennykh let.; Kievan Rus -- History -- Sources.
Description: xi, 180 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reprint of the 1946 ed. published at the University Press, Cambridge.
Table of contents: title: Contents … vii; title: Preface … ix; title: ◦; title: I. The Early Records … 1; title: II. The Early History of Kiev … 17; title: III. Greek and Oriental Evidence … 40; title: IV. Vladimir I … 65; title: V. The Treaties with the Greeks, and Russian Heathenism … 76; title: VI. Yaroslav the Wise	… 98; title: VII. Voevoda and Kormilets … 112; title: VIII. Vladimir Monomakh … 120; title: Appendix I. Extract from Ibn Miskawaih, in The Eclipse of the ‘Abbasid Caliphate, Vol. v. Translated from the Arabic by D. S. Margoliouth … 138; title: Appendix II. The Scandinavian Background: Oddr Víthförli (Örvar-Oddr) … 145; title: Index … 175