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PAPER RU3

Russian Literature, History, and Culture, before 1300

Course Adviser: Professor Simon Franklin (CL)

NOTE: each work is listed only once. 'General' works are not listed under each
separate sub-heading for which they may be relevant. It is assumed that students
will as a matter of course look first at the appropriate 'general' works

Dictionaries

Lunt, Horace, A Concise Dictionary of Old Russian (Munich, 1970)

Slovar russkogo z[ka XI-XVII vv., (Moscow, 1975-)

Sreznevskii, I.I., Material[ dl slovar drevnerusskogo z[ka, 3 vols. (St

Petersburg, 1893-1912)

Useful Background

Obolensky, Dimitri, The Byzantine Commonwealth: Eastern Europe 500-1500

(London, 1971)

General Histories

Franklin, Simon, and Shepard, Jonathan, The Emergence of Rus 750-1200 (London,
1996)

Grekov, B.D., Kievska Rus 4th ed. (Moscow, Leningrad, 1944)

Hellmann, Manfred (ed.), Handbuch der Geschichte Rulands, I.i: von der Kiever
Reichsbildung bis zum moskauer Zartum (Stuttgart, 1981)

Martin, Janet, Medieval Russia, 980-1584 (Cambridge, 1995)

Rybakov, B. A., Kievan Rus (Moscow, 1984)

Tolochko, P.P., Drevn Rus. Oqerki socialno-politiqeskoy istorii (Kiev,

1987)

Vernadsky, George, Kievan Russia (New Haven, 1948; repr. 1972)

Periods and Themes

9th-10th centuries

Constantine Porphyrogenitus, Chapter 9 of De Administrando Imperio, ed. & transl.

G. Moravcsik and R.J.H. Jenkins (Washington, D.C., 1967); commentaries ed.
Jenkins, (London, 1962); commenyary on Chapter 9 reprinted in D. Obolensky,
Byzantium and the Slavs: Collected Studies (London, 1971)
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Davidson, H. Ellis, The Viking Road to Byzantium (London, 1976)

Hannestad, K. et al. (ed.), Varangian Problems, Scando-Slavica. Supplementum 1

(Copenhagen, 1970)

Noonan, T. S., 'Why the Vikings First Came to Russia', Jahrbcher fr Geschichte
Osteuropas, 34 (1986), 321-48

Petrukhin, V.Ia., Naqalo -tnokulturnoy istorii Rusi IX-XI vekov (Moscow, 1995)

Zuckerman, C., Deux tapes de la formation de lancien tat russe, in M. Kazanski,

A. Nercessian and C. Zuckerman (ed.), Les centres proto-urbains russes entre
Scandinavie, Byzance et Orient (Paris, 2000), pp. 95-120.

The Conversion

Obolensky, D., 'Cherson and the Conversion of Rus': an Anti-Revisionist View',

Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 13 (1989), 244-56

Poppe, Andrzej., 'The Political Background to the Baptism of Rus. Byzantine-Russian

Relations Between 986-989', Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 30 (1976), 197-244; repr. in
Poppe, The Rise of Christian Russia (London, 1982)

Shepard, J., 'Some Remarks on the Sources for the Conversion of Rus'', in S. W.
Swierkosz-Lenart (ed.), Le origini e lo sviluppo della cristianit slavo-bizantina
(Nuovi Studi Storici, 17; Rome, 1992), pp. 59-95

11-12th centuries: political

Dimnik, Martin, 'The "Testament" of Iaroslav "The Wise": A Re-Examination',

Canadian Slavonic Papers, 29 (1987), 369-86

Dimnik, Martin, The Dynasty of Chernigov 1054-1146 (Texts and Studies, 116;
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies; Toronto, 1994)

Froianov, I.Ia. and Dvornichenko, A.Iu., Goroda-gosudarstva Drevney Rusi

(Leningrad, 1988)

Kollmann, Nancy Shields, 'Collateral Succession in Kievan Rus'', Harvard Ukrainian

Studies, 14 (1990), 377-87

The Mongols / the 13th Century

Allsen, T.T., 'Mongol Census Taking in Rus', 1245-1275', Harvard Ukrainian

Studies, 5 (1981), 32-53

Begunov, Iu.K. and Kirpichnikov, A.N., Knz Aleksandr Nevskiy i ego -poha (St
Petersburg, 1995)

Fennell, J.L.I., The Crisis of Medieval Russia (London, 1982)

Halperin, Charles J., Russia and the Golden Horde. The Mongol Impact on Medieval
Russian History (Bloomington, 1985)
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Vernadsky, G., The Mongols and Russia (New Haven, 1953)

Social groups

Froianov, I.Ia., Kievska Rus. Oqerki socialno--konomiqeskoy istorii

(Leningrad, 1974)

Froianov, I.Ia., Kievska Rus. Oqerki socialno-politiqeskoy istorii (Leningrad,

1980)

Gorskii, A.A., Drevnerusska drujina (Moscow, 1989)

Kuryuzawa, T. 'The Debate on the Genesis of Russian Feudalism in Recent Soviet

Historiography', in I. Takayuki (ed.), Facing Up to the Past: Soviet Historiography
under Perestroika (Sapporo, 1989), pp. 111-47

Levin, Eve, 'Women and Property in Medieval Novgorod: Dependence and

Independence', Russian History, 10 (1983), 154-69

Pushkareva, N.L., Jenxin[ Drevney Rusi (Moscow, 1989)

Sverdlov, M.B., Genezis i struktura feodalnogo obxestva v Drevney Rusi

(Leningrad, 1983)

Tolochko, A.P., Knz v Drevney Rusi: vlast, sobstvennost, ideologi (Kiev,

1992)

Customs

Levin, Eve, Sex and Society in the World of the Orthodox Slavs, 900-1700 (Ithaca,
London, 1989)

Romanov, B.A., L]di i nrav[ Drevney Rusi (2nd ed., Moscow, Leningrad, 1966)

Law

Kaiser, Daniel H., The Growth of the Law in Medieval Russia (Princeton, 1980)

Kaiser, Daniel H. (transl.), The Laws of Rus' - Tenth to Fifteenth Centuries (The
Laws of Russia , Series I, Medieval Russia, vol. I; Salt Lake City, 1992)

Ianin, V.L. (ed.), Zakonodatelstvo Drevney Rusi (Rossiyskoe zakonodatelstvo

X-XX vekov, I; Moscow, 1984)

Regions

Dimnik, Martin, The Dynasty of Chernigov 1054-1146 (Texts and Studies, 116;
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies; Toronto, 1994)

Froianov, I.Ia., Mtejn[y Novgorod (St Petersburg, 1992)

Hurwitz, Ellen, Prince Andrej Bogoljubskij. The Man and the Myth (Studia historica
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et philologica, 12, sectio slavica, 4; Florence, 1980)

Limonov, Iu.A., Vladimiro-Suzdalska Rus (Leningrad, 1987)

Writing and Literacy

Franklin, Simon, Writing, Society and Culture in Early Rus, c. 950-1300

(Cambridge, 2002)

Ianin, V.L., poslal tebe berestu (Moscow, 1975 revised ed. 1998)

Literature

i) Reference Books

Cizevskij, D., History of Russian Literature. From the Eleventh Century to the End of
the Baroque (Slavistic Printings and Reprintings 12; The Hague, 1960; 3rd printing
1971)

Fennell, J. and Stokes, A.D., Early Russian Literature (London, 1974)

Likhachev, D.S. (ed.), Slovar knijnikov i knijnosti Drevney Rusi. V[p. I. X-

perva polovina XIV vv (Leningrad, 1987)

Podskalsky, Gerhard, Christentum und theologische Literatur in der Kiever Rus'

(988-1237) (Munich, 1982); Russian translation by A.V. Nazarenko, with additional
commentaries by K.K. Akent'ev, published as: Hristianstvo i bogoslovska
literatura v Kievskoy Rusi (988-1237) (St Petersburg, 1996)

Likhachev, D.S. (ed.), Istori russkoy literatur[ XI-XVII vv (2nd ed., Moscow,
1985)

ii) Styles and genres

Brtnes, Jostein, Visions of Glory. Studies in Early Russian Hagiography (Oslo,

1988)

Franklin, Simon, 'Towards Post-Soviet Pre-Modernism: On Recent Approaches to

Early Rus(s)ian Hagiography', in idem, Byzantium - Rus - Russia: Studies in the
Translation of Christian Culture (Aldershot, 2002)

Hollingsworth, P., The Hagiography of Kievan Rus' (Cambridge, Mass., 1992)

Ingham, Norman, 'Early East Slavic Literature as a Socio-Cultural Fact', in Flier,

Michael S., and Rowland, Daniel (ed.), Medieval Russian Culture, vol. II (=
California Slavic Studies XIX; Berkeley and London, 1994), pp. 3-17

Likhachev, D.S., Po-tika drevnerusskoy literatur[ (3rd ed., Leningrad, 1979)

Likhachev, D.S., Razvitie russkoy literatur[ X-XVII vekov (Leningrad, 1973), pp.
14-74
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iii) Translated literature

Bulanin, D.M., Drevn Rus, in Levin, Iu.D. (ed.), Istori russkoy perevodnoy
hudojestvennoy literatur[. Drevn Rus. XVIII vek. Tom I. Proza (St Petersburg,
Cologne etc., 1995), pp. 17-73

Franklin, Simon, 'The Reception of Byzantine Culture by the Slavs', and

'Booklearning and Bookmen in Kievan Rus'. A Survey of an Idea', in idem,
Byzantium - Rus - Russia: Studies in the Translation of Christian Culture (Aldershot,
2002)

Thomson, Francis J., The Reception of Byzantine Culture in Mediaeval Russia

(Aldershot, 1999)

Vereshchagin, E.M., Hristianska knijnost Drevney Rusi (Moscow, 1996)

Texts

i) Povest vremenn[h let

Text, modern Russian transl. and commentaries in Pamtniki literatur[ Drevney
Rusi. XI-naqalo XII veka. (Moscow, 1978), pp. 46-176; also in Biblioteka
literatur[ Drevney Rusi I (St Petersburg, 1997), pp. 84-202.

Also, with more detailed commentaries: Povest vremenn[h let, ed. D.S. Likhachev
and V.P. Adrianova-Peretts (2 vols, Moscow, Leningrad, 1950)

English transl. [imperfect]: Cross, Samuel Hazard and Sherbowitz-Wetzor, Olgerd P.

(transl.), The Russian Primary Chronicle. Laurentian Text (Mediaeval Academy of
America Publications, 60; 3rd printing, Cambridge, Mass., 1973)

See also the relevant chapter in Likhachev, The Great Heritage (Moscow, 1981)

ii) Jitie Feodosi Peqerskogo

Text, modern Russian transl., and commentaries in Pamtniki literatur[ Drevney
Rusi. XI-naqalo XII veka, pp. 305-390; also in Biblioteka literatur[ Drevney
Rusi I, (St Petersburg, 1997), pp. 352-432
English transl. in Hollingsworth, Hagiography

See the relevant sections of Fedotov, The Russian Religious Mind, I; Brtnes, Visions
of Glory; Toporov, Svtost; Senyk, A History of the Church in Ukraine.

iii) Pouqenie Vladimira Monomaha

Text, modern Russian transl., and commentaries in Pamtniki literatur[ Drevney
Rusi. XI-naqalo XII veka, pp. 392-413; also in Biblioteka literatur[ Drevney
Rusi I, (St Petersburg, 1997), pp. 456-470
English transl. in Hollingsworth, Hagiography

Obolensky, Dimitri, Six Byzantine Portraits (Oxford, 1988), pp. 83-114

Orlov, A. S., Vladimir Monomakh (Moscow, Leningrad, 1946)

iv) Molenie Daniila Zatoqnika

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Text, modern Russian transl., and commentaries in Pamtniki literatur[ Drevney

Rusi. XII vek, (Moscow, 1980), pp. 388-398; also in Biblioteka literatur[
Drevney Rusi IV (St Petersburg, 1997), pp. 268-282

Critical ed. Colucci, M. and Danti, A., Daniil Zatocnik. Slovo e Molenie (Studia
historica et philologica 4, sectio slavica 2; Florence, 1977)

Birnbaum, H., Kem b[l za@adoqn[y Daniil Zatoqnik?, Trud[ Otdela

drevnerusskoy literatur[, 50 (1996), 576-602

Franklin, Simon, 'Echoes of Byzantine Elite Culture in Twelfth-Century Russia?',

idem, Byzantium - Rus - Russia: Studies in the Translation of Christian Culture
(Aldershot, 2002)

Likhachev, D.S., Socialn[e osnov[ stil Moleni Daniila Zatoqnika, in

his Issledovani po drevnerusskoy literature (Leningrad, 1986), pp. 185-200; cf.
also his The Great Heritage, pp. 226-240

v) Slovo o polku Igoreve

Text, modern Russian transl., and commentaries in Pamtniki literatur[ Drevney
Rusi. XII vek, (Moscow, 1980), pp. 372-386; also in Biblioteka literatur[
Drevney Rusi IV (St Petersburg, 1997), pp. 254-266

Issledovani Slova o polku Igoreve (Leningrad, 1986)

Likhachev, D.S., Slovo o polku Igoreve i kultura ego vremeni (Leningrad,

1978)

Mann, Robert, Lances Sing. A Study of the Igor Tale (Columbus, Ohio, 1989)

Slovar-spravoqnik Slova o polku Igoreve, 6 vols (1965-1984)

_nciklopedi Slova o polku Igoreve, 5 vols (St Petersburg, 1995)

vi) Jitie Aleksandra Nevskogo

Text, modern Russian transl., and commentaries in Pamtniki literatur[ Drevney
Rusi. XIII vek, pp. 426-438; also in Biblioteka literatur[ Drevney Rusi V (St
Petersburg, 1997), pp. 358-368

Christianity

Fedotov, George P., The Russian Religious Mind. I. Kievan Christianity. The 10th to
the 13th Centuries (Cambridge, Mass., 1946; repr. Belmont, Mass., 1975)

Fennell, John, A History of the Russian Church to 1448 (London, New York, 1995)

Mller, Ludolf, Die Taufe Russlands. Die Frhgeschichte des russischen

Christentums bis zum Jahre 988 (Quellen und Studien zur russischen
Geistesgeschichte, 6; Munich, 1987)

Poppe, Andrzej, 'The Original Status of the Old-Russian Church', Acta Poloniae
historica, 39 (1979), 4-45; repr. in Poppe, The Rise of Christian Russia, no. III

Senyk, Sophia, A History of the Church in Ukraine. Volume I: To the End of the
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Thirteenth Century (Orientalia Christiana Analecta, 243; Rome, 1993)

Shchapov, Ia.N., Gosudarstvo i cerkov Drevney Rusi X-XII vv. (Moscow, 1989)

Toporov, V.N., Svtost i svt[e v russkoy duhovnoy kulture. Tom I. Perv[y vek
hristianstva na Rusi (Moscow, 1995)

Vodoff, V., Naissance de la chrtient russe. La conversion du prince Vladimir de

Kiev (988) et ses consquences (XIe-XIIIe sicles) (Paris, 1988)

Art and Architecture

Brumfield, William Craft, A History of Russian Architecture (Cambridge, 1993)

Grierson, Roderick (ed.), Gates of Mystery. The Art of Holy Russia (Fort Worth
[1993])

Lazarev, V. N. Old Russian Murals and Mosaics (London, 1966)

Rappoport, P.A., Drevnerusska arhitektura (St Petersburg, 1993)

Rappoport, P. A., Building the Churches of Kievan Russia (Aldershot, 1995)

Rodley, Lyn, Byzantine Art and Architecture. An Introduction (Cambridge, 1994)