The Nature and the Image of Princely Power in Kievan Rus’, 980-1054: A Study of SourcesIn The Nature and the Image of Princely Power in Kievan Rus', 980-1054, Walter K. Hanak offers a critical analysis of the annalistic, literary, and other works that provide rich if conflicting and contradictory information on the nature of princely power and their image or literary representations. The primary sources demonstrate an interaction between the reality and the notions concerning princely power and how this power generates an image of itself. The author also analyses the textual incongruities that appear to be a reflection of a number of currents -- Byzantine, Varangian, Khazar, and Eastern Slavic. The secondary sources provide a variety of interpretations, which Hanak seeks to uphold and dispute. His stress, however, is to view this evidence in the light of a newly Christianized state and the launching of a maturative process in its early history. |
Contents
Chapter One The Nature and the Early Rus Image of Kievan Princely Power | 1 |
Chapter Two Byzantine Imperial Thought in Theory and Practice in VladimirianJaroslavian Rus | 71 |
Chapter Three The Decline of the Varangians | 107 |
Chapter Four The Khazars in the Shadows of Kievan Political Thought | 135 |
Chapter Five The Eastern Slavic Political and Social Structure | 149 |
Chapter Six Some Conclusions | 167 |
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