01071nam--2200385---450-99000138070020331620050704085409.0000138070USA01000138070(ALEPH)000138070USA0100013807020040130d1978----km-y0itay0103----baengGB||||||||001yyHermeneutics and social scienceapproaches to UnderstandingZygmunt BaumanLondonHutchinson1978263 p.21 cm20012001001-------2001ErmeneyticaSociologia301BAUMAN,Zygmunt124491ITsalbcISBD990001380700203316II.5. 3121(XV B 259)84579 L.M.XV BBKUMASIAV61020040130USA010857PATRY9020040406USA011737COPAT19020050704USA010854Hermeneutics and social science933566UNISA03765nam 2200685Ia 450 991095629300332120241001191626.0978067406546806740654689780674068544067406854810.4159/harvard.9780674065468(CKB)2560000000082506(OCoLC)794003984(CaPaEBR)ebrary10568050(SSID)ssj0000692709(PQKBManifestationID)11405888(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000692709(PQKBWorkID)10637242(PQKB)10782662(MiAaPQ)EBC3301106(DE-B1597)178212(OCoLC)840446587(DE-B1597)9780674065468(Au-PeEL)EBL3301106(CaPaEBR)ebr10568050(Perlego)1147982(EXLCZ)99256000000008250620110922d2012 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrReimagining Europe Kievan Rus' in the medieval world /Christian RaffenspergerCambridge, Massachusetts Harvard University Press20121 online resource (340 p.)Harvard historical studies ;177Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9780674063846 0674063848 Includes bibliographical references (p.283-321) and index.Frontmatter --Contents --Introduction --1. The Byzantine Ideal --2. The Ties That Bind --3. Russian Dynastic Marriage --4. Kiev as a Center of European Trade --5. The Micro-Christendom of Rus' --Conclusion --Appendix: Rulers of Rus' --Notes --Bibliography --Acknowledgments --IndexAn 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.With the aid of Latin sources, the author brings to light the considerable political, religious, marital, and economic ties among European kingdoms, including Rus', restoring a historical record rendered blank by Rusianmonastic chroniclers as well as modern scholars ideologically motivated to build barriers between East and West. Further, Raffensperger revises the concept of a Byzantine Commonwealth that stood in opposition to Europe-and under which Rus' was subsumed-toward that of a Byzantine Ideal esteemed and emulated by all the states of Europe. In this new context, appropriation of Byzantine customs, law, coinage, art, and architecture in both Rus' and Europe can be understood as an attempt to gain legitimacy and prestige by association with the surviving remnant of the Roman Empire. Reimagining Europe initiates an expansion of history that is sure to challenge ideas of Russian exceptionalism and influence the course of European medieval studies.Harvard historical studies ;v. 177.ChristianityKyivan RusEuropeRelationsKyivan RusKyivan RusCivilizationByzantine influencesKyivan RusHistory862-1237Kyivan RusRelationsEuropeChristianity947.02Raffensperger Christian1666310MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910956293003321Reimagining Europe4361192UNINA