Medieval Rus’ and Early Modern Russia : Texts and Contexts (Paperback)

         Section I: Use of Byzantine models and sources

1. Leo VI and the Transformation of Byzantine Strategic Thinking about the Rus’
2. Who Was ‘Theodore the Rhos from a Family of Emperors’, the Owner of the Stone from the Holy Sepulchre?
3. Cosmos, Calendars and Medical Advice in the Miscellanies of the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius and their Late Byzantine Counterparts (14th-early 16th centuries)
4. Holy Foolishness and Gender Transgression in Russian Hagiography from the Middle Ages to Modernity

Section II: Historiography and Construction of Historical Narratives

5. Some Unnoticed Greek Quotes in Old Russian Chronicles
6. Retranslating the Rus′ Primary Chronicle: Perspectives on Horace Lunt’s New Rendering
7. Two emperors of the princess Olga’s visit to Constantinople: Constantine VII Porphyrogenitos versus John Tzimiskes in the copies of the Rus’ Primary Chronicle
8. Patriarch Germanus II of Constantinople and the Slavic world
9. Thoughtful Agglomeration: Late Byzantine Sources for Muscovite Ceremonial
10. Boris Godunov and his family in the mirror of medieval Russian polyonymy

Section III: Material Supports of Written Texts

11. "I must be cruel only to be kind": towards a literary history of Kyiv graffito No. 108
12. Muscovite Acquisition of Books from Poland in the Late 1640s?Early 1650s
13. The Codex in Early Rus’ between the 11th-15th centuries: variations of form and variations of function

Section IV: Social Repercussions of the Graphosphere

14. Sofiia Vitovtovna’s Dance: The Wedding of Vasilii II in Russian Cultural Memory
15. Revolution in the Pictosphere: The Ukrainian Baroque and Muscovite Reception