Description

• Title:
  Commonwealth of Interest in the Rus’ian-Byzantine Treaty (ca. 944)
• Creator:
  Siwko, Arkadiusz
• Contributor:
  University of Opole, pl. Kopernika 11a, 45-040 Opole, Polska/Poland;
  asiwy2@tlen.pl
• Description:
  The preamble to the Rus’ian-Byzantine treaty, which was concluded around 944, contains dozens of anthroponyms – the names of members of the Kyivian elite, their envoys as well as merchants. Several of them can be identified as Slavonic. The author attempted to answer the question about the identity of these Slavs and their status within the “decision-making collective” of the early Rus’ian state. He has compared the information contained in the treaty with material consisting of other Rus’ian and Byzantine sources. Additionally the author compared the system of governance in the state of the first Rurikids with the model present among the Yotvingians and other medieval Baltic societies, which have also came under the influence of the Scandinavians. 
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
• Date:
  2022.04.11;
  2021.12.30
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  Studia Ceranea. Journal of the Waldemar Ceran Research Centre for the History and Culture of the Mediterranean Area and South-East Europe;
  11
• Subject:
  Rus’ian-Byzantine treaties;
  Rurik dynasty;
  medieval Rus’;
  Rus’ian-Byzantine relations;
  Primary Chronicle;
  Igor;
  Yotvingians
• Identifier:
  2084-140X;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/41531 ;
  2449-8378;
  10.18778/2084-140X.11.20
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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• Type:
  image