A. A. Gorskij (otv. red.): Srednevekovaia Rus. Vyp. 7. Izdat. Indrik Moskva 2007. ISBN: 978-5-85759-418-6

Herausgegeben im Auftrag des Osteuropa-Instituts Regensburg
von Martin Schulze Wessel und Dietmar Neutatz

Band 58 (2010) H. 3, S. 420-421

A. A. Gorskij (otv. red.) Srednevekovaja Rus’. Vyp. 7. Izdat. Indrik Moskva 2007. 357 S. ISBN: 978-5-85759-418-6.

The contents of this volume are noteworthy for their thematic as well as chronological range and due attention is paid to early Rus’ external ties, alongside internal affairs. I. G. Konovalova provides an authoritative reappraisal of evidence of Rus’ political contacts with Byzantium, Khazaria and the Abbasid caliphate in the mid-ninth century, noting that the Rus’ attack on Constantinople in 860 is unlikely to have proceeded without Khazar connivance. P. V. Lukin reinterprets Izyaslav Yaroslavich’s move of the market from the Podol to the hill outside his palace in light of German churchmen’s evidence concerning the Baltic Slavs in the twelfth century: market-places were supposed to have sacral significance and certain ones were equipped with platforms of some sort to facilitate addressing assemblies. S. N. Azbelev places undue faith in Tatishchev’s account of a campaign led by Vladimir Monomakh and Gleb Svyatoslavich against Kherson in the 1070s, attempting to collate it with the motifs in a bylina. A. V. Nazarenko’s ‘Vladimir Monomakh and the Welfs at the end of the eleventh century’ proposes that Iustitia, the wife of Count Otto II of Dießen and Wolfratshausen, was the daughter of Vladimir Monomakh. P. S. Stefanovich devotes 100 pages to the relations between the princes and the nobles of the Galich and Volyn principalities in the twelfth century. He argues that the political power and centrifugal tendencies of the ‘boiar oligarchy’ have been exaggerated by most modern scholars: the boiars’ overriding concern was retention of the territorial integrity of the Galich land. A. P. Tolochko presents strong arguments for supposing that the famed Daniil Romanovich of Galich was younger than his brother Vasil’ko, being born in the March Year of 1204–1205; in that case, he inherited Galich as an inferior seat, with Volyn being regarded as the prime position, befitting Vasil’ko as elder brother (p. 232). S. Z. Chernov offers an important survey of ‘micro-regions’, focusing on the central and north-eastern regions of the principality of Moscow. Collation of charters and other written evidence with archaeological data leads him to infer considerable internal colonisation, starting in the second half of the thirteenth century, and a change towards more dispersed settlements; written sources from the 1330s onwards begin to refer to volosti and also to lands belonging to servitors of the princes of Moscow. V. A. Kuchkin, in ‘The last treaty of Dmitri of the Don’, shows how the treaty of 25 March 1389 was designed gradually to curtail the fiscal, judicial and military powers of Prince Vladimir Andreevich of Serpukhov, an aspiration no less telling for being nullified by Dmitriy’s death soon afterwards. E. L. Konyavskaya analyses the sources for the judgement and deposition of Bishop Evfimiy of Tver in 1390 and demonstrates that the earliest account was composed by a member of the entourage of Mikhail of Tver, the prince responsible for Evfimiy’s removal. The best witness to this text is the paper insertion into a parchment manuscript of a church statute (ustav), the paper being datable to 1438 (GIM. Sin. sobr. 331).

Jonathan Shepard, Oxford

Zitierweise: Jonathan Shepard über: A. A. Gorskij (otv. red.): Srednevekovaia Rus. Vyp. 7. Izdat. Indrik Moskva 2007. ISBN: 978-5-85759-418-6, in: Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas. Neue Folge, 58 (2010) H. 3, S. 420-421: http://www.dokumente.ios-regensburg.de/JGO/Rez/Shepard_Gorskij_Srednevekovaja-Rus-7.html (Datum des Seitenbesuchs)