Property, Power, and Authority in Rus and Latin Europe, ca. 1000–1236
This book intertwines two themes in medieval studies, which so far have never been brought together: comparative studies of Latin and Orthodox Europe and a debate on the "feudal revolution" - the changes that occurred during the transition from Carolingian to post-Carolingian Europe. Les mer
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This book intertwines two themes in medieval studies, which so far have never been brought together: comparative studies of Latin and Orthodox Europe and a debate on the "feudal revolution" - the changes that occurred during the transition from Carolingian to post-Carolingian Europe. The book broadens the linguistic and geographical scope of the debate by comparing texts written in "learned" and "vulgar" Latin, Church Slavonic, Anglo-Norman, and East Slavonic, the vernacular of Kievan Rus. From this comparison, the Kingdom of the Rus' - a terra incognita for most medievalists, generally assumed to be profoundly different from the West -emerges as a regional variation of European society. In particular, the finding that contractual relations, traditionally described in scholarly literature as "feudo-vassalic," were present in the Kingdom of the Rus suggests that current explanations for the origins of such relations may overemphasize factors unique to the medieval West and overlook deeper pan-European processes.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Arc Humanities Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781942401483
- Utgivelsesår
- 2018
- Format
- 23 x 16 cm
- Priser
- Short-listed for Early Slavic Studies Association book prize 2018.
Om forfatteren
Yulia Mikhailova holds a PhD in Medieval History from the University of New Mexico.