Portraits of Medieval Eastern Europe, 9001400 by Donald Ostrowski

Portraits of Medieval Eastern Europe, 9001400 by Donald Ostrowski

Portraits of Medieval Eastern Europe provides imagined biographies of twenty figures from all walks of life in Eastern Europe from 800 to 1250, giving an insight into medieval life from Scandinavia to Byzantium. Accompanied by an interactive companion website, it is the perfect teaching aid to support and excite students of medieval Eastern Europe.

"Balancing on an intricate edge between facts and fiction, this thoughtfully edited volume offers an excellent selection of ‘real’ and ‘imaginary’ biographies of individuals, from slaves to kings, who populated the eastern half of Europe in the centuries before and after the first MillenniumThe expert authors provide a refreshing and instructive read to students of history and to anyone who has roots in this region or wishes to broaden her mental horizon."

Katalin Szende, Central European University, Budapest

Donald Ostrowski is Research Advisor in the Social Sciences and Lecturer in History at the Harvard University Extension School. His previous publications include Muscovy and the Mongols: Cross-Cultural Influences on the Steppe Frontier 1304–1589 (1998) and over 100 articles and review essays. He is also the editor of The Povest’ vremennykh let: An Interlinear Collation and Paradosis, 3 vols. (2003), and a co-editor of four collections of studies.

Christian Raffensperger is Associate Professor of History at Wittenberg University, as well as an associate of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. He has published multiple books including Reimagining Europe: Kievan Rus’ in the Medieval World (2012) and Ties of Kinship: Genealogy and Dynastic Marriage in Kyivan Rus’ (2016). He is also the series editor for Beyond Medieval Europe, a book series published by ARC Humanities Press.

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ISBN 13	9781138701205
ISBN 10	1138701203
Title	Portraits of Medieval Eastern Europe, 9001400
Author	Donald Ostrowski
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published	2017-10-04
Number of pages	208
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