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Christian Raffensperger
Name Unknown offers an example of an eastern European queen as a corrective to the western European focus of medieval queenship studies.
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This volume provides a collection of 'imagined lives'-individuals who, no matter their position on the social hierarchy, were crucial to the development of medieval Europe and the modern period that…
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The Kingdom of Rus’ challenges the perception of Rus’ as an eastern other - advancing the idea of the Rus’ as a kingdom deeply integrated with medieval Europe.
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This collection of essays brings the focus back to medieval authors to see how they described their world. While we see that each author certainly had their own biases, the…
The book aims to demonstrate the multiplicity of types of rulers and polities that existed in medieval Europe. The contributors discuss not just kings, or even queens, but countesses, dukes…
Rulers and Rulership in the Arc of Medieval Europe challenges the dominant paradigm of what rulership is and who rulers are by decentering the narrative and providing a broad swath…
This study examines conflict and conflict resolution in medieval Eastern Europe. The author argues that the posturing, limited violence, and shifting alliances within kinship networks often determined the outcome of…
An overriding assumption has directed scholarship in both European and Slavic history: that Kievan Rus’ was part of a Byzantine commonwealth separate from Europe. Raffensperger refutes this, and offers a…
Christian Raffensperger tracks the dynastic marriages of the Volodimerovici, the ruling family of Rus. Using a modern scholarly approach and broad range of primary sources, he delivers a fully realized…
Izyaslav and Gertrude focuses on two well-known Rusian rulers, King Izyaslav and Queen Gertrude, from their marriage to their rule in Rus to their travels in exile and their ultimate…
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…
This volume brings together scholars from fields and disciplines as diverse as medieval history, Byzantine history, Roman art history, and early Islamic studies that were influenced by Walter Kaegi. The…
Christian Raffensperger, Donald Ostrowski
A new, family-based history of the region known as Kyivan Rus'.
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A celebration of Ukraine’s rich cultural heritage bringing to light the country’s most important works of art and architectural monuments from prehistory to the present.
