Table of Contents:
  • Byzantino-Rossika: Reception of Byzantine culture by the Slavs
  • Empire of the Rhomaioi as viewed from Kievan Russia : aspects of Byzantino-Russian cultural relations
  • Some apocryphal sources of Kievan Russian historiography
  • Malalas in Slavonic
  • Obscure sentence in the Slavonic translation of the chronicle of John Malalas
  • Who was the uncle of Theodore Prodromus?
  • Echoes of Byzantine elite culture in twelfth-century Russia?
  • Diplomacy and ideology : Byzantium and the Russian Church in the mid twelfth century
  • Annotationes Byzantino-Russicae
  • Writing and learning in early Rus: Literacy and documentation in early medieval Russia
  • Writing in the ground : recent Soviet publications on early Russian literacy
  • Greek in Kievan Rus'
  • Booklearning and bookmen in Kievan Rus' : a survey of an idea
  • On 'philosophy' and 'philosophers' in Kievan Rus
  • Perceptions and descriptions of art in pre-Mongol Rus-
  • Borrowed time : perceptions of the past in twelfth-century Rus'
  • Post-medieval tradition: Invention of Rus(sia)(s): some remarks on medieval and modern perceptions of continuity and discontinuity
  • Towards post-Soviet pre-modernism : on recent approaches to early Rus(s)ian hagiography
  • Nostalgia for hell : Russian literary demonism and orthodox tradition