Portraits of Medieval Eastern Europe, 9001400

"Balancing on an intricate edge between facts and fiction, this thoughtfully edited volume offers an excellent selection of 'real' and 'imaginary' biographies of individuals, from slaves to kings, who populated the eastern half of Europe in the centuries before and after the first Millennium. The expert authors provide a refreshing and instructive read to students of history and to anyone who has roots in this region or wishes to broaden her mental horizon." Katalin Szende, Central European University, Budapest

Auteur

Donald Ostrowski is Research Advisor in the Social Sciences and Lecturer in History at the Harvard University Extension School. His previous publications include Muscovy and the Mongols: Cross-Cultural Influences on the Steppe Frontier 13041589 (1998) and over 100 articles and review essays. He is also the editor of The Povest' vremennykh let: An Interlinear Collation and Paradosis, 3 vols. (2003), and a co-editor of four collections of studies.

Christian Raffensperger is Associate Professor of History at Wittenberg University, as well as an associate of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. He has published multiple books including Reimagining Europe: Kievan Rus' in the Medieval World (2012) and Ties of Kinship: Genealogy and Dynastic Marriage in Kyivan Rus' (2016). He is also the series editor for Beyond Medieval Europe, a book series published by ARC Humanities Press.

Résumé
Portraits of Medieval Eastern Europe provides imagined biographies of twenty figures from all walks of life in Eastern Europe from 800 to 1250, giving an insight into medieval life from Scandinavia to Byzantium. Accompanied by an interactive companion website, it is the perfect teaching aid to support and excite students of medieval Eastern Europe.

Contenu

List of figures

List of maps

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction - Donald Ostrowski

PART 1: Rus' and Northern Europe

1. "The Widow Princess of Minsk" - Inés García de la Puente

2. "Anna, A Woman of Novgorod" - Eve Levin

3. "Prince Vladimir of Pskov" - Anti Selart

4. Mother of a Tribal Häme Warrior Kuutamo Hyväneuvo - Mari Isoaho

5. "From Butcher to Saint: The Improbable Life and Fate of Vaivilkas/Vojelk/Lavry/Elisej of Lithuania and Black Rus' (? -1267)" - David M. Goldfrank PART 2: Eurasian Steppe

6. "The Rare and Excellent History of Konchak (A Polovtsian Chieftain)" - Donald Ostrowski

7. "Sübedei Ba'atar: Portait of a Mongol General" - Timothy May PART 3: Byzantium and Southeastern Europe

8. "Anna Komnene: Princess, Historian, & Conspirator?" - Leonora Neville

9. "Angel on Earth and Heavenly ManSt. Sava of Serbia" - Florin Curta

10. "Paulus de Breberio banus Croatorum dominus et Bosne" - Neven Budak

11. King Miliutin and His Many Marriages - Vlada Stankovi PART 4: Central Europe

12. "Henry Zdík, Bishop of Olomouc and Premonstratensian" - Lisa Wolverton

13. "King Béla IV of Hungary: A Monarch in a Period of Crisis and Recovery" - Balázs Nagy

14. "Zalava, Slave in the Kingdom of Hungary" - Cameron Sutt

15. Jan Dugosz on King Wadysaw Jagieo's Master Chef and the Invention of Bigos - Paul Milliman PART 5: Travelers to Strange Lands

16. "The Travels of Gorm in Eastern Europe" - Heidi Sherman-Lelis and Arnold Lelisx

17. "Anna Porphyrogenita, Byzantine Princess and Queen of the Rus'" - Susana Torres Prieto

18. "The Journeys of My Soul in the Land of Canaan, by Yitshak ben Sirota" - Isaiah Gruber

19. "Agent of Change: Evpraksia Vsevolodovna between Emperor and Papacy" - Christian A. Raffensperger

20. "Fotii, a Rus' Pilgrim to Constantinople" - Monica White Conclusion - Christian A. Raffensperger

Index