The Nature and the Image of Princely Power in Kievan Rus', 980-1054: A Study of Sources - Couverture rigide

Hanak, Walter K.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9004259821 ISBN 13 : 9789004259829

Editeur : Brill, 2013

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Walter K. Hanak, Ph.D. (1973), Indiana University, Bloomington, is Professor of History, Emeritus, Shepherd University. He has expertise in the fields of Byzantine, Medieval Slavic, and Medieval Islamic History. He has published monographs and articles on Byzantine and Medieval Slavic topics. His most recent monograph, a major study of sources, with Marios Philippides, is The Siege and the Fall of Constantinople in 1453: Historiography, Topography, and Military Studies (Ashgate, 2011).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brill
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9004259821
• ISBN 13: 9789004259829
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 222
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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