Property, Power, and Authority in Rus and Latin Europe, Ca. 1000-1236 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781942401483)

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.

Author: Yulia Mikhailova
ISBN-10: 1942401485
ISBN-13: 9781942401483
Publisher: ARC Humanities Press
Language: English
Published: 07/26/2018
Pages: 244
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 0.70d