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The Nature and the Image of Princely Power in Kievan Rus’, 980-1054

A Study of Sources

By: Walter K. Hanak

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The Nature and the Image of Princely Power in Kievan Rus’, 980-1054

A Study of Sources

By: Walter K. Hanak

In 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.

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BRILL

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9004260226

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9789004260221

The Siege and the Fall of Constantinople in 1453

Historiography, Topography, and Military Studies

By: Marios Philippides,Walter K. Hanak

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The Siege and the Fall of Constantinople in 1453

Historiography, Topography, and Military Studies

By: Marios Philippides,Walter K. Hanak

This major study is a comprehensive scholarly work on a key moment in the history of Europe, the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks in 1453. The result of years of research, it presents all available sources along with critical evaluations of these narratives. The authors have consulted texts in all relevant languages, both those that remain only in manuscript and others that have been printed, often in careless and inferior editions. Attention is also given to 'folk history' as it evolved over centuries, producing prominent myths and folktales in Greek, medieval Russian, Italian, and Turkish folklore. Part I, The Pen, addresses the complex questions introduced by this myriad of original literature and secondary sources.

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919

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Routledge

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1317016084

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9781317016083

Cardinal Isidore (c.1390–1462)

A Late Byzantine Scholar, Warlord, and Prelate

By: Marios Philippides,Walter K. Hanak

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Cardinal Isidore (c.1390–1462)

A Late Byzantine Scholar, Warlord, and Prelate

By: Marios Philippides,Walter K. Hanak

A member of the imperial Palaiologan family, albeit most probably illegitimate, Isidore became a scholar at a young age and began his rise in the Byzantine ecclesiastical ranks. He was an active advocate of the union of the Orthodox and Catholic Churches in Constantinople. His military exploits, including his participation in the defence of Constantinople in 1453, provide us with eyewitness accounts. Without doubt he travelled widely, perhaps more so than any other individual in the annals of Byzantine history: Greece, Asia Minor, Sicily, Russia, Poland, Lithuania, and Italy. His roles included diplomat, high ecclesiastic in both the Orthodox and Catholic churches, theologian, soldier, papal emissary to the Constantinopolitan court, delegate to the Council of Florence, advisor to the last Byzantine emperors, metropolitan of Kiev and all Russia, and member of the Vatican curia. This is an original work based on new archival research and the first monograph to study Cardinal Isidore in his many diverse roles. His contributions to the events of the first six decades of the quattrocento are important for the study of major Church councils and the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks. Isidore played a crucial role in each of these events.

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Routledge

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1351214888

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The Nature and the Image of Princely Power in Kievan Rus', 980-1054

A Study of Sources

By: Walter K. Hanak

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The Nature and the Image of Princely Power in Kievan Rus', 980-1054

A Study of Sources

By: Walter K. Hanak

In The Nature and the Image of Princely Power in Kievan Rus', 980-1054, Walter K. Hanak provides a critical analysis of the annalistic and literary record of a newly Christianized state and its impact upon the formulation of princely authority.

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Brill Academic Pub

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9004259821

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9789004259829

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The Nature and the Image of Princely Power in Kievan Rus’, 980-1054

The Nature and the Image of Princely Power in Kievan Rus’, 980-1054

The Siege and the Fall of Constantinople in 1453

The Siege and the Fall of Constantinople in 1453

Cardinal Isidore (c.1390–1462)

Cardinal Isidore (c.1390–1462)

The Nature and the Image of Princely Power in Kievan Rus', 980-1054

The Nature and the Image of Princely Power in Kievan Rus', 980-1054

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