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

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.

About the author

Walter K. Hanak, Ph.D. (1973), Indiana University, Bloomington, is Professor of History, Emeritus, Shepherd University. He has expertise in the fields of Byzantine, Medieval Slavic, and Medieval Islamic History. He has published monographs and articles on Byzantine and Medieval Slavic topics. His most recent monograph, a major study of sources, with Marios Philippides, is The Siege and the Fall of Constantinople in 1453: Historiography, Topography, and Military Studies (Ashgate, 2011).

Product details

• Authors: Walter K Hanak, Walter K. Hanak
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.10.2013
• EAN: 9789004259829
• ISBN: 978-90-04-25982-9
• No. of pages: 222
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 241 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 476 g
• Series: East Central and Eastern Europ
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous