The Viking World (Routledge Worlds)

Russia and the east CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN THE VIKING RUS AND BYZANTIUM Jonathan Shepard B yzantium was far from being the main at ...

scratched but one dirham has the name ‘Zacharias’ scratched in Greek-style letters, perhaps with reference to a temporary owner ...

notice on the Greeks that marks of respect were expected, while plausible claims to have humbled the ‘God-protected city’ could ...

down the Dnieper and then plying the same craft across the unpredictable waters of the Black Sea. Yet that is what the Rus embar ...

megalopolis (PVL: 18 – 19 ; RPC: 66 – 8 ; Stein-Wilkeshuis 1991 : 43 – 5 ). These are the nuts and bolts of a working document w ...

Enlightened self-interest weighed in favour of mutual cooperation among the tribute-raisers, especially since both Constantine’s ...

There were other constraints on Rus aggressiveness besides Pechenegs, Khazars and the Byzantines’ mix of trading-privileges and ...

escaping death at Rus hands on his way back. Adalbert’s claim chimes in with the Rus Primary Chronicle’s tale of the response of ...

Emperor John I Tzimiskes launched a surprise attack, a pincer-movement: his cavalry made for Preslav while a fleet equipped with ...

(Preger 1907 : 176 ; Mango 1953 : 460 ). The institution of a military command-post on the Straits of Kerch marks one Byzantine ...

Figure 37. 1 Map of ‘the way from the Varangians to the Greeks’. The ‘way’ is described in the Rus Primary Chronicle c. 1100 and ...

Rus and Byzantine courts were the background to all this trafficking. Tenth-century chamber graves denoted exceptional wealth, s ...

in Kiev and upon whose boy the lot fell, were overridden: father and son were slain in their hall (PVL: 38 – 9 ; RPC: 95 – 6 ). ...

Vladimir’s adoption of Christianity as mandatory cult for his subjects accelerated the Slavicisation of the ruling elite already ...

sagas’ boasting of his exploits gains some corroboration from a Byzantine contemporary who was probably acquainted with him, Kek ...

language of Christian worship and literary culture was Slavic. But this order engendered conditions facilitating exchanges of go ...

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——( 2000 ) ‘The death in the horse’s skull: the interaction of Old Russian and Old Norse literary traditions’, in S. Hansson and ...

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