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The warp and weft of political and social relationships among the medieval elite were formed by marriages made between royal families. Ties of Kinship establishes a new standard for tracking the dynastic marriages of the ruling family of Rus--the descendants of Volodimer (Volodimeroviči). Utilizing a modern scholarly approach and a broad range of primary sources from inside and outside Rus, Christian Raffensperger has created a fully realized picture of the Volodimeroviči from the tenth through the twelfth centuries and the first comprehensive, scholarly treatment of the...

An overriding assumption has long directed scholarship in both European and Slavic history: that Kievan Rus' in the tenth through twelfth centuries was part of a Byzantine commonwealth separate from Europe. Christian Raffensperger refutes this conception and offers a new frame for two hundred years of history, one in which Rus' is understood as part of medieval Europe and East is not so neatly divided from West.

With the aid of Latin sources, the author brings to light the considerable political, religious, marital, and economic ties among European kingdoms, including Rus', restoring...

Portraits of Medieval Eastern Europe provides imagined biographies of twenty figures from all walks of life living in Eastern Europe from 800 to 1250. The book utilises the existing source base, as well as comparative material from other places and times to create the biographies. The figures portrayed are from a range of backgrounds from key players such as Bolesław I, king of Poland, Anna Komnene a Byzantine princess and historian, and Subodei, the Mongol general, to everyday figures such as a Viking explorer in Rus', a woman from Novgorod, a Jewish traveler, and a Rus'...

Portraits of Medieval Eastern Europe provides imagined biographies of twenty figures from all walks of life living in Eastern Europe from 800 to 1250. The book utilises the existing source base, as well as comparative material from other places and times to create the biographies. The figures portrayed are from a range of backgrounds from key players such as Bolesław I, king of Poland, Anna Komnene a Byzantine princess and historian, and Subodei, the Mongol general, to everyday figures such as a Viking explorer in Rus', a woman from Novgorod, a Jewish traveler, and a Rus'...