LEADER 02695oam 22004814a 450 001 996496565103316 005 20220926045701.0 010 $a1-80270-056-0 035 $a(CKB)5590000000960529 035 $a(OCoLC)1345581609 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_100663 035 $a(DE-B1597)627182 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781802700565 035 $a(EXLCZ)995590000000960529 100 $a20220423d2022 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Rise and Demise of the Myth of the Rus? Land / $fby Charles J. Halperin 210 1$aBaltimore, Maryland :$cProject Muse,$d2022 210 4$dİ2022 215 $a1 online resource (viii, 106 pages.) 225 0 $aBeyond Medieval Europe 311 $a1-80270-011-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aThe Rus' Land (tenth to fifteenth centuries) -- The Rus' Land and national consciousness -- The Tverian Land -- Novgorodian Land -- Suzdalian Land -- Pskovian Land -- Rus' Land and Ivan IV -- The Muscovite Land -- The Rus' Land in Ukraine and Belarus (fourteenth to seventeenth centuries). 330 $aThe concept of the Rus' Land (russkaia zemlia) became and remained an historical myth of modern Russian nationalism as the equivalent of "Russia," but it was actually a political myth, manipulated to provide legitimacy. Its meaning was dynastic--territories ruled by a member of the Riurikid/Volodimerovich princely clan. This book traces the history of its use from the tenth to the seventeenth century, outlining its changing religious (pagan to Christian) and geographic elements (from the Dnieper River valley in Ukraine in Kievan Rus' to Muscovy in Russia) and considers alternative "land" concepts which failed to rise to the ideological heights of the Rus' Land. Although the Rus' Land was never an ethnic or national concept, and never expanded its appeal beyond an elite lay and clerical audience, understanding its evolution sheds light upon the cultural and intellectual history of the medieval and early modern East Slavs. 410 0$aBeyond medieval Europe. 606 $aNationalism$zRussia 607 $aRussia$xHistoriography 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $aEast Slavic medieval history, russkaia zemlia, Russia, Ukraine, Russian nationalism,. 615 0$aNationalism 676 $a947.0072 700 $aHalperin$b Charles J.$01256871 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996496565103316 996 $aThe Rise and Demise of the Myth of the Rus? Land$92953355 997 $aUNISA