Early Medieval Europe. — 1995. — No. 4. — pp. 41–60. "The arrival of foreign emissaries bearing gifts or tribute features fairly often in narrative records of the deeds of ninth-century Carolingian rulers. Such public payments of respects could be represented as marks of submission or, in the case of envoys from established and manifestly important potentates, as denoting their...
Die Welt der Slaven. — 2001. — № 46/1. — pp. 43-62. The names of the Dnieper Rapids as attested in chapter 9 of Constantine Porphyrogenitus’ treatise “De administrando imperio” of 948-952, have been the central interest of many linguists and historians from early in the 18th century. Interpretations of the names of the seven Dnieper Rapids have been offered, especially through...
Jahrbueher fuer Geschichte Osteuropas. — 2004. — No 52. — pp. 1-32. "Ever since the appearance of Gottlieb Siegfried Bayer’s “Geographia Russiae” (1737/1744) and Gerhardt Friedrich Müller’s “Origines gentis et nominis Russorum” (1749), the Varangian-Rus’ian controversy has known but a few historiographic turns... It comes...no surprise that in recent publications the...
Dissertation for the degree of Philosophiae doctor (Ph.D.). — University of Bergen, 2013. — 211 p. This dissertation has presented an argument suggesting that scholarship on the early history of the Rus has hitherto not taken full account of the contribution of Arabic literature to the subject. Meanwhile, this evidence is of utmost importance as the most diverse and voluminous...
Kraków: Towarzystwo Wydawnicze "Historia Iagellonica", 2012. — 156 s. — ISBN: 978-83-62261-56-7. Basen Morza Czarnego od 2. poł. XIII w. stał się obszarem intensywnej działalności handlowej Genueńczyków, prowadzonej w oparciu o sieć faktorii. Przebywający w nich kupcy angażowali swój kapitał zarówno w wymianę lewantyńską, jak i handel regionalny, którego podstawą były...
Статья // Сіверщина в історії України: Зб. наук. пр. — К.: Глухів, 2011. — Вип. 4 — С. 93-98. It has been argued that the Kievan Prince Yaroslav the Wise most likely bequeathed Kursk and the Posem’e region to his son Vsevolod. Circumstantial evidence suggests that in 1097, at the Council of Lyubech, Vladimir Monomakh handed over the Posem’e region to Oleg Svyatoslavich making...
Article // Canadian Slavonic Papers. - 1979. - Volume 21, Issue 1 - Pp. 28-44. The purpose of this article is to investigate the nature of the power struggle which followed the sack of Kiev in the spring of 1235. The sequence of events in this conflict has not yet been ascertained or analysed. It is important that this be done because an investigation of this rivalry, as...
Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1981. — 199 p. — (Studies and texts - Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies; 52 - ISSN: 0082-5328). — ISBN: 0-88844-052-9. In 1224 Mikhail Vsevolodovich, now the senior prince in the family of Ol'govichi, became prince of Chernigov. During his reign he weakened the influence of the Vsevolodivichi, princes of...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 437 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-82442-2. Historians in pre-revolutionary Russia, in the Soviet Union, in contemporary Russia, and the West have consistently relegated the dynasty of Chernigov to a place of minor importance in Kievan Rus'. This view was buttressed by the evidence that, after the Mongols invaded Rus' in 1237, the two branches from the...
Senior seminar paper. — Western Oregon University, 2005. — 49 p. The Vikings, referred to as Varangians in Eastern Europe, were known throughout Europe as traders and raiders, and perhaps the creators or instigators of the first organized Russian state: Kievan Rus. It is the intention of this paper to explore the evidence of the Viking or Varangian presence in Kievan Rus, more...
Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2004. — 290 p. — (The Northern World; v. 12). — ISBN 90-04-13874-9. This volume deals with one of the most controversial issues in writings about early medieval history: the presence of Scandinavians, known as Rus, and their impact on Eastern Europe during the Viking Age. These studies give for the first time an extensive and detailed picture of the Norse...
Article // Situne Dei. - 2009. - pp. 7-20. This paper deals with two Ukrainian regions mentioned in historical sources as ‘Dereva’ and ‘Volhynia’ which were highly involved in contacts between Slavs and Norsemen. Rich and exclusive finds of Byzantine, Slavonic and Scandinavian origins are examined in connection with the social and economical background of both regions.
Article // Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique. - Juillet-septembre 1971. - Vol. 12 - N°3 - pp. 286-295. The Povest' vremennykh let is the basic source for Russian history from the tenth to the thirteenth centuries. It was continuously compiled during this period and the entire text was revised and on several occasions. Textual analysis has substantiated these revisions and...
Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique. — Juillet-septembre 1971. — Vol. 12, N°3. — p. 296-306. The problem of the origin and significance of the term Rus' in the early history of Russia is normally considered in terms of the Anti-Normannist-Normannist debate on the role of the Varangians in the formation of the Russian state. The debate on the word Rus' therefore revolves around...
Article // Revue des Études Byzantines. — 2006-2007. - No. 64-65 - p. 329-340. The treaty between the Kievan prince Sviatoslav and the Byzantine emperor John Tzimiskes signed in July 971 at Dristra has been the subject of discussion for three centuries. A number of scholars have investigated most of the problems concerning dating, structure, and articles on the obligations of...