Medieval Rus’ and Early Modern Russia: Texts and Contexts

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Frontispiece
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Foreword by Andrei Franklin and Susana Torres Prieto
List of Abbreviations
List of Archives and Libraries
Part I: Use of Byzantine Models and Sources
	Chapter 1: Leo VI and the Transformation of Byzantine Strategic Thinking about the Rus’
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 2: Who Was ‘Theodore the Rhos from a Family of Emperors’, the Owner of the Stone from the Holy Sepulchre?
		Anthologia Marciana
			‘A Precious Stone from the Holy Sepulchre of Christ’
			Restoration of Christ’s Tomb
			‘Theodore from the Family of Emperors’
			The Mstislav Gospel
			‘Of Imperial Kin’
			‘The Cornerstone Carried as Foundation’
		Conclusions
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 3: Cosmos, Calendars, and Medical Advice in the Miscellanies of the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius and Their Late Byzantine Counterparts (14th to Early 16th Centuries)
		Medical Calendars in the Manuscripts of the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius
		Cosmography and Medical Calendars in the Byzantine Tradition
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 4: Holy Foolishness and Gender Transgression in Russian Hagiography from the Middle Ages to Modernity
		Introduction
		Andrei of Constantinople
		Feodor/a of Alexandria
		Andrei/Kseniia of St. Petersburg
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
Part II: Historiography and Construction of Historical Narratives
	Chapter 5: Some Unnoticed Greek Quotes in Old Russian Chronicles
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 6: Retranslating The Rus’ Primary Chronicle: Perspectives on Horace Lunt’s New Rendering
		Notes
		Bibliography
			Rusian Chronicle Texts
			Old Church Slavonic Texts
			Secondary literature
	Chapter 7: Two Emperors of the Princess Olga’s Visit to Constantinople: Constantine VII Porphyrogenitos versus John Tzimiskes in the Copies of the Rus’ Primary Chronicle
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 8: Patriarch Germanus II of Constantinople and the Slavic World
		Introduction
			Acts of the Council of Nicaea – Nymphea (1234)
			Synodal Epistle on the Movements of Bishops (c. 1226)
			Synodal Decree on Slaves to Metropolitan Kirill I of Kyiv (1228)
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 9: Thoughtful Agglomeration: Late Byzantine Sources for Muscovite Ceremonial
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 10: Boris Godunov and His Family in the Mirror of Medieval Russian Polyonymy
		Notes
		Bibliography
Part III: Material Supports of Written Texts
	Chapter 11: “I Must Be Cruel Only to Be Kind”: Towards a Literary History of Kyiv Graffito No. 108
		Acknowledgements
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 12: Muscovite Acquisition of Books from Poland in the Late 1640s to Early 1650s
		Notes
		Bibliography
			17th-century publications
			Modern source publications and studies
	Chapter 13: The Codex in Early Rus’ between the 11th and 15th Centuries: Variations of Form and Variations of Function
		Form and Function
		The Experience of the First Centuries
		Monastic Revival
		Books Not for Reading
		Notes
		Bibliography
Part IV: Social Repercussions of the Graphosphere
	Chapter 14: Sofiia Vitovtovna’s Dance: The Wedding of Vasilii II in Russian Cultural Memory
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 15: Revolution in the Pictosphere: The Ukrainian Baroque and Muscovite Reception
		Notes
		Bibliography
Index