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The Ruling Families of Rus

Author : Christian Raffensperger,Donald Ostrowski
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789147155

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The Ruling Families of Rus by Christian Raffensperger,Donald Ostrowski Pdf

A new history of the Kyivan Rus, a medieval dynastic state in eastern Europe. Kyivan Rus’ was a state in northeastern Europe from the late ninth to the mid-sixteenth century that encompassed a variety of peoples, including Lithuanians, Polish, and Ottomans. The Ruling Families of Rus explores the region’s history through local families, revealing how the concept of family rule developed over the centuries into what we understand as dynasties today. Examining a broad range of archival sources, the authors examine the development of Rus, Lithuania, Muscovy, and Tver and their relationships with the Mongols, Byzantines, and others. The Ruling Families of Rus will appeal to scholars interested in the medieval history of eastern Europe.

The Ruling Families of Rus

Author : Christian Raffensperger,Donald Ostrowski
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789147452

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The Ruling Families of Rus by Christian Raffensperger,Donald Ostrowski Pdf

A new history of the Kyivan Rus, a medieval dynastic state in eastern Europe. Kyivan Rus’ was a state in northeastern Europe from the late ninth to the mid-sixteenth century that encompassed a variety of peoples, including Lithuanians, Polish, and Ottomans. The Ruling Families of Rus explores the region’s history through local families, revealing how the concept of family rule developed over the centuries into what we understand as dynasties today. Examining a broad range of archival sources, the authors examine the development of Rus, Lithuania, Muscovy, and Tver and their relationships with the Mongols, Byzantines, and others. The Ruling Families of Rus will appeal to scholars interested in the medieval history of eastern Europe.

Ties of Kinship

Author : Christian Raffensperger
Publisher : Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 193265013X

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Ties of Kinship by Christian Raffensperger Pdf

"Describes and analyzes the dynastic marriages of the descendants of Volodimer, the first ruler of Kyivan Rus', across medieval Europe from the tenth through the twelfth centuries and presents more than twenty-two genealogical charts with accompanying bibliographic information"--

The Braganzas

Author : Malyn Newitt
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789141658

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The Braganzas by Malyn Newitt Pdf

For two hundred and seventy years, the House of Braganza provided the kings and queens of Portugal. During a period of momentous change, from 1640 to 1910, this influential family helped to establish Portuguese independence from their powerful Spanish neighbors and saved the monarchy and government from total destruction by the marauding armies of Napoleon. The Braganzas also ruled the vast empire of Brazil from 1822 to 1889, successfully creating a unified nation and preventing the country from splitting into small warring states. In his fascinating reappraisal of the Braganza dynasty, Malyn Newitt traces the rise and fall of one of the world’s most important royal families. He introduces us to a colorful cast of innovators, revolutionaries, villains, heroes, and charlatans, from the absolutist Dom Miguel to the “Soldier King” Dom Pedro I, and recounts in vivid detail the major social, economic, and political events that defined their rule. Featuring an extensive selection of artworks and photographs, Newitt’s book offers a timely look at Britain’s “oldest ally” and the role of monarchy in the early modern European world.

Reimagining Europe

Author : Christian Raffensperger
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674065468

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Reimagining Europe by Christian Raffensperger Pdf

Main description: An 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.

Russia and the Russians

Author : Geoffrey A. Hosking
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0674004736

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Russia and the Russians by Geoffrey A. Hosking Pdf

Chronicles the history of the Russian Empire from the Mongol Invasion, through the Bolshevik Revolution, to the aftereffects of the Cold War.

Conflict, Bargaining, and Kinship Networks in Medieval Eastern Europe

Author : Christian Raffensperger
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498568531

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Conflict, Bargaining, and Kinship Networks in Medieval Eastern Europe by Christian Raffensperger Pdf

Conflict, Bargaining, and Kinship Networks in Medieval Eastern Europe takes the familiar view of Eastern Europe, families, and conflicts and stands it on its head. Instead of a world rife with civil war and killing, this book presents a relatively structured environment where conflict is engaged in for the purposes of advancing one’s position, and where death among the royal families is relatively rare. At the heart of this analysis is the use of situational kinship networks—relationships created by elites for the purposes of engaging in conflict with their own kin, but only for the duration of a particular conflict. A new image of medieval Eastern Europe, less consumed by civil war and mass death, will change the perception of medieval Eastern Europe in the minds of readers. This new perception is essential to not only present the past more accurately, but also to allow for medieval Eastern Europe’s integration into the larger medieval world as something other than an aberrant other.

Name Unknown: The Life of a Rusian Queen

Author : Christian Raffensperger
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781040030141

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Name Unknown: The Life of a Rusian Queen by Christian Raffensperger Pdf

Name Unknown: The Life of a Rusian Queen offers an example of an eastern European queen as a corrective to the western European focus of medieval queenship studies. Through a chronological approach, this book looks beyond the popular biographies of royal women such as Eleanor of Aquitaine and Berengaria of Castile and gathers material from sources throughout Europe. It engages with modern queenship studies literature to create a collective biography of a Rusian queen through the various cycles of her life from the marriage of eight-year-old Verkhuslava to the death of the ruler of Minsk whose generosity is recorded, but not her name. For medievalists interested in women and queens, Name Unknown: The Life of a Rusian Queen provides an entry point to an area of Europe rarely studied in that literature. For Slavists, it presents a way of looking at medieval Rusian women that has not yet appeared in this scholarly tradition. Ultimately, this biography integrates Rus, and eastern Europe, into the medieval world and acts as an important reminder that women are essential to our history and thus to our overall understanding of the past. This book is of great use to students and scholars interested in the history of women, queenship, and medieval Europe.

Ulwencreutz's The Royal Families in Europe V

Author : Lars Ulwencreutz
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781304581358

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Ulwencreutz's The Royal Families in Europe V by Lars Ulwencreutz Pdf

Ulwencreutz's Royal Families in Europe V - A brief history of the ruling houses during the last 2000 years. From the house of La Tour d'Auvergne to the house of Zahringen.

Russian History: A Very Short Introduction

Author : Geoffrey Hosking
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199580989

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Russian History: A Very Short Introduction by Geoffrey Hosking Pdf

A leading international authority discusses all aspects of Russian history, from the struggle by the state to control society to the transformation of the nation into a multi-ethnic empire, Russia's relations with the West and the post-Soviet era. Original.

Muscovy and the Mongols

Author : Donald Ostrowski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0521894107

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Muscovy and the Mongols by Donald Ostrowski Pdf

A 1998 study of the impact of the Mongols on the Rus lands using a broad and extensive source base.

Radical Traditionalism

Author : David Olster,Christian Raffensperger
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498584876

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Radical Traditionalism by David Olster,Christian Raffensperger Pdf

This volume brings together scholars from fields and disciplines as diverse as medieval history, Byzantine history, Roman art history, and early Islamic studies that were influenced by Walter Kaegi. The contributors examine political culture, source criticism, and institutional continuity and discontinuity in a variety of areas.

Rulers and Rulership in the Arc of Medieval Europe, 1000-1200

Author : Christian Raffensperger
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000921670

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Rulers and Rulership in the Arc of Medieval Europe, 1000-1200 by Christian Raffensperger Pdf

Rulers and Rulership in the Arc of Medieval Europe challenges the dominant paradigm of what rulership is and who rulers are by decentering the narrative and providing a broad swath of examples from throughout medieval Europe. Within that territory, the prevalent idea of monarchy and kingship is overturned in favor of a broad definition of rulership. This book will demonstrate to the reader that the way in which medieval Europe has been constructed in both the popular and scholarly imaginations is incorrect. Instead of a king we have multiple rulers, male and female, ruling concurrently. Instead of an independent church or a church striving for supremacy under the Gregorian Reform, we have a pope and ecclesiastical leaders making deals with secular rulers and an in-depth interconnection between the two. Finally, instead of a strong centralizing polity growing into statehood we see weak rulers working hand in glove with weak subordinates to make the polity as a whole function. Medievalists, Byzantinists, and Slavists typically operate in isolation from one another. They do not read each other’s books, or engage with each other’s work. This book requires engagement from all of them to point out that the medieval Europe that they work in is one and the same and demands collaboration to best understand it.

Succession to the Throne in Early Modern Russia

Author : Paul Bushkovitch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108479349

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Succession to the Throne in Early Modern Russia by Paul Bushkovitch Pdf

This revisionist history explores how the tsar's power was transferred in Russia over three centuries, as cultural practices and customs evolved.

Military Saints in Byzantium and Rus, 900-1200

Author : Monica White
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521195645

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Military Saints in Byzantium and Rus, 900-1200 by Monica White Pdf

A comprehensive study of the process by which certain martyrs of the early church were transformed into military heroes.