The nature and the image of princely power in Kievan Rus', 980-1054
a study of sources
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Word Count
50,750 words, Guess
Page Count
203 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL31161686M
- ISBN-139789004259829
- OCLC Control Number856579571
- Library of Congress Control Number2013032777
Classifications
- DDC947/.02
- LCCDK73 .H36 2014
Description
"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"--Back cover.
Subjects
Series Statement
- East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450 -- volume 25
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