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.
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Bibliographische Angaben
Auflage
1/2018
Copyrightjahr
2018
ISBN-Print
978-1-942401-48-3
ISBN-Online
978-1-942401-49-0
Verlag
Arc Humanities Press, Yorkshire
Reihe
Beyond Medieval Europe
Sprache
Englisch
Seiten
246
Produkttyp
Monographie
Inhaltsverzeichnis
KapitelSeiten
Table of Contents Kein Zugriff
List of Figures Kein Zugriff
Acknowledgements Kein Zugriff
Introduction Kein Zugriff Seiten 1 - 12
1. Rus and Latin Europe: Words, Concepts, and Phenomena Kein Zugriff Seiten 13 - 70
2. Medieval Texts and Professional Belief Systems: Latin, Church Slavonic, and Vernacular Political Narratives Kein Zugriff Seiten 71 - 112
3. Elite Domination in Rus and Latin Europe: Princely Power and Banal Lordship Kein Zugriff Seiten 113 - 152
4. Interprincely Agreements and a Question of Feudo-Vassalic Relations Kein Zugriff Seiten 153 - 194
