LEADER 03765nam 2200685Ia 450 001 9910956293003321 005 20241001191626.0 010 $a9780674065468 010 $a0674065468 010 $a9780674068544 010 $a0674068548 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674065468 035 $a(CKB)2560000000082506 035 $a(OCoLC)794003984 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10568050 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000692709 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11405888 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000692709 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10637242 035 $a(PQKB)10782662 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301106 035 $a(DE-B1597)178212 035 $a(OCoLC)840446587 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674065468 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301106 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10568050 035 $a(Perlego)1147982 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000082506 100 $a20110922d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aReimagining Europe $eKievan Rus' in the medieval world /$fChristian Raffensperger 210 $aCambridge, Massachusetts $cHarvard University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (340 p.) 225 1 $aHarvard historical studies ;$v177 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780674063846 311 08$a0674063848 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p.283-321) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$t1. The Byzantine Ideal --$t2. The Ties That Bind --$t3. Russian Dynastic Marriage --$t4. Kiev as a Center of European Trade --$t5. The Micro-Christendom of Rus' --$tConclusion --$tAppendix: Rulers of Rus' --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aAn overriding assumption has long directed scholarship in both European and Slavic history: that Kievan Rus' in the tenth through twelfth centuries was part of a Byzantine commonwealth separate from Europe. Christian Raffensperger refutes this conception and offers a new frame for two hundred years of history, one in which Rus' is understood as part of medieval Europe and East is not so neatly divided from West.With the aid of Latin sources, the author brings to light the considerable political, religious, marital, and economic ties among European kingdoms, including Rus', restoring a historical record rendered blank by Rusianmonastic chroniclers as well as modern scholars ideologically motivated to build barriers between East and West. Further, Raffensperger revises the concept of a Byzantine Commonwealth that stood in opposition to Europe-and under which Rus' was subsumed-toward that of a Byzantine Ideal esteemed and emulated by all the states of Europe. In this new context, appropriation of Byzantine customs, law, coinage, art, and architecture in both Rus' and Europe can be understood as an attempt to gain legitimacy and prestige by association with the surviving remnant of the Roman Empire. Reimagining Europe initiates an expansion of history that is sure to challenge ideas of Russian exceptionalism and influence the course of European medieval studies. 410 0$aHarvard historical studies ;$vv. 177. 606 $aChristianity$zKyivan Rus 607 $aEurope$xRelations$zKyivan Rus 607 $aKyivan Rus$xCivilization$xByzantine influences 607 $aKyivan Rus$xHistory$y862-1237 607 $aKyivan Rus$xRelations$zEurope 615 0$aChristianity 676 $a947.02 700 $aRaffensperger$b Christian$01666310 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910956293003321 996 $aReimagining Europe$94361192 997 $aUNINA