Reimagining Europe
Subtitle: Kievan Rus' in the medieval world
By: Christian Raffensperger
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780674063846
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: History; Civilization; Byzantine influences; Relations; Christianity
Description: An overriding assumption has long directed scholarship in both European and Slavic history: that Kievan Rus' in the tenth through twelfth centuries was part of a Byzantine commonwealth separate from Europe. Christian Raffensperger refutes this conception and offers a new frame for two hundred years of history, one in which Rus' is understood as part of medieval Europe and East is not so neatly divided from West.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Rethinking Rus'; title: The Byzantine ideal; title: The ties that bind; title: Russian dynastic marriage; title: Kiev as a center of European trade; title: The micro-christendom of Rus'; title: Rus' in a wider world.