A beginners guide to slavic fantasy in translation. Gesta danorum deeds of the danes is a patriotic work of danish history, by the 12th century. A bibliography of slavic mythology slavica publishers. We are a nonprofit organization and we would rather spend the money on our mission to engage people with cultural heritage and to improve history education worldwide. Medieval slavic texts, volume 1 is a collection of medieval texts, reprinted for students of slavic philology, and representing a wide range of genres. A primer on medieval slavic names welcome to my magick.
Slavs are indoeuropean people who speak the various slavic languages of the larger. The purpose of the book is to introduce the english speaking reader to the medieval slavic coinages of the balkans as a whole. No matter what youre looking for or where you are in the world, our global marketplace of sellers can help you find unique and affordable options. Founded in 2006, historum is a history forum dedicated to history discussions and historical events. This was a crucial reason for slavs being so numerous in the early medieval times and for being warriors fierce as none other. As the title implies, the original intention was to continue the series with later texts, but this never actually happened. Mokosh was a slavic goddess of weaving, women, water and fertility. This dense brick of a book starts with a warning to the unwary an untranslated latin dedication. Throughout their history, slavs came into contact with nonslavic groups. Along the way we learn the answers to some vital question. The author demonstrates that the history of the sclavenes and the antes begins only at around 500 ad. The conceptual emphasis here is on the relation between material culture and ethnicity.
His analysis goes beyond the utilitarian perception of soviet archeology. Essays in the history and culture of a medieval citystate. In the medieval history of europe, bulgarias status as the bulgarian empire, wherein it acted as a key regional power occurred in two distinct periods. Colonization and cultural change 95050 by robert bartlettnot exclusively slavic history but in it there is a ton of really interesting material on german christianization and semicolonization of large parts of slavic europe, including expansion into poland but also.
Recent advances in the reconstruction of common slavic 19711982 jointly with p. Russian photographers recreate famous rembrandt paintings, results are looking amazing. He informs readers that this book enlarges upon a harvard course on. To welcome new visitors and patrons, we summarize here some resources to explain to the uninitiated about the hilandar research library hrl and the resource center for medieval slavic studies rcmss. Making slavs history and archaeology lower danube region. The acceptance of christianity in the tenth century is the most significant cultural event in the history of modern russia, ukraine, and belarus. Viking hedeby is sacked by polabian slavs, after already having been sacked by. Ama friday 7th sarah rose, author of dday girls rhistory moderator applications. They could integrate into slavic society and become free people. Etsy is the home to thousands of handmade, vintage, and oneofakind products and gifts related to your search. If you enjoy and want to experience the vast modern history, ancient history as well as the medieval history, feel free to like this page.
Medieval slavic texts, volume 1 is a collection of medieval texts, reprinted for students of slavic philology, and representing a wide range of genres, language variants, and orthographic systems. The book fills a big gap in english historical literature most history books ive read in english on eastern europe only begin with the early middle ages, but dont. Any good books on early and medieval slavic history. Scriptoriaslavica medieval slavic manuscripts and culture. The ancient and modern cycle books are boxed up, simply because there isnt room for them all, and most of the. In the slavic dossier, iurie stamatis objective is to understand the reasons for the emergence of two different discourses on the place of the slavs on the territory of moldova and their role in the genesis of moldovans and their culture during the medieval period in the soviet archaeology. The oldest manuscripts derive from the 11th and 12th centuries. The book fills a big gap in english historical literature most history books ive read in english on eastern europe only begin with the early middle ages, but don t.
This book offers an alternative approach to the problem of slavic ethnicity in southeastern europe between c. In the middle ages, groups of saxon ore miners settled in medieval bosnia, serbia. This was the name of a 7thcentury ruler of the slavs, who established a kingdom including parts of modern slovenia, austria, slovakia, and the czech republic. Billedresultat for medieval russian soldier it will be useful for my building research in a mod for another great strategy game medieval total war in. He informs readers that this book enlarges upon a harvard course on slavic history. In the postulated homeland region presentday ukraine, they had contacts with the iranian sarmatians and the germanic goths. Slavic peoples the northern crusades, are very valuable for the history of west slavic tribes polabian slavs, pomeranians and slavic paganism. He informs readers that this book enlarges upon a harvard course on slavic history from the th to the 17th centuries. The culture and military history of the ancient and early slavs, from their origins to their split into eastern, western and southern slavs.
The term slavs designates an ethnic group of people who share a longterm cultural continuity and who speak a set of related languages known as the slavic languages all of which belong to the indoeuropean language family. From these disparate tribes came modernday russians, poles, ukrainians, belarusians, bulgarians, moldovans, czechs, slovaks, serbs, sorbians mostly found in. General histories, social histories, politicalmilitary histories, and biographies are all good. Our community welcomes everyone from around the world to discuss world history, historical periods, and themes in history military history, archaeology, arts and culture, and history in books and movies. Catering to adult and young adult audiences, the books i have chosen to highlight below share fantasy elements and uniquely slavic sensibilities, ranging along the genre spectrum from magical. The maps in the video are drawn to the best of my ability and arent suppose to symbolize any political state or unity of the tribes rather than show off the possible areas where that. Danish history, and books 1016, which deal with medieval history. Selected documents illustrating the history of europe in the middle age, ed. Feel free to submit interesting articles, tell us about this cool book you just read, or start a discussion about who everyones favorite figure of minor french nobility is.
An illustrated history of slavic misery is a ride through the slavic nations of europe and the men and women who made them great, from violent warlords to medieval kings all the way to ingenious poets, freedom fighters and a woman who literally fell from heaven. Anna karenina by leo tolstoy, men and monsters by elena may, the master and margarita by mikhail bulgakov, the bear and the nigh. The early slavs were a diverse group of tribal societies who lived during the migration period and early middle ages approximately the 5th to the 10th centuries in eastern europe and established the foundations for the slavic nations through the slavic states of the high middle ages. Medieval slavic coinages in the balkans oxbow books. Culture and society in early medieval eastern europe by. Personally i like the short oxford history books on various periods and locations for example. Biblical literature biblical literature slavic versions. But before i start, i would like to introduce you with the viking society of the early medieval period. The scope of the bibliography is all written materials books, dissertations, pamphlets, articles, and selections published in all. As the title implies, the original intention was to continue the series with. Browse the amazon editors picks for the best books of 2019, featuring our. Slavic people believed in a wide variety of spirits who inhabited the rivers, forests, houses or were personifications of illness, weather, luck, fate etc.
Rybakov is noted for his effort to reexamine medieval ecclesiastical texts, synthesizing his findings with archaeological data, comparative mythology, ethnography, and nineteenthcentury folk practices. Culture and society in early medieval eastern europe. The best way to learn history is simply through varied reading, taken up with interest. Chronica slavorum was originally a medieval chronicle which observed life and culture of slavs, written. Mokosh f slavic mythology derived from slavic mok meaning wet, moist. After their subsequent spread, the slavs began assimilating nonslavic peoples. A vast reservoir of cultural concepts, expressions, and iconographic images has developed within the eastern orthodox tradition, and now slavic specialists, theologians, historians, and literary scholars can turn to a collection which examines the. In the upcoming series of articles, i will try to cover the slavonorman relationship in early medieval times. Medieval history cycle free reading book list simply.
The bear and the nightingale by katherine arden, the girl in the tower by katherine arden, uprooted by naomi novik, men. Scholars working with slavic literatures and linguistics, particularly early literatures and medieval slavic texts, will also find it indispensable. In the middle ages, there were many slavic tribes across a wide stretch of land. I studies medieval history for a few years but had to give it up, and recently decided to devote more spare time to it. The book fills a big gap in english historical literature most history books ive read in english on eastern europe only begin with the early middle ages, but dont say much about the origins of the slavic people and the displacement of the celts and germanic tribes in the region. Physical appearance of early medieval slavic people. Slavic culture and history bring us many facts you should learn about. It was written by a czech priest who eventually became a harvard professor of byzantine history. Warfare in medieval poland covers the military history of poland during the piast and jagiellon dynasties 10th16th centuries. Slaves in slavic society slave trading in the medieval. Culture and history slavorum exploring slavic world.
Please help us cover our server costs for this year. Below you can see a list of books, articles, research papers, etc. A recent festschrift in honor of anisava miltenova, institute for literature, bulgarian academy of sciences includes over forty articles on topics such as medieval byzantinoslavic culture, biblical apocrypha, female saints, balkan saints, hagiographical texts, etc. The balkans and the danube limes during the sixth and seventh centuries 5. The slavic dossier medieval archaeology in the soviet. This list is for nonfiction books covering the middle ages, c. If we are to facilitate that, we have to, at minimum, provide books lots of books. Henrik birnbaum department of slavic, east european. Pdf slavicbaltic space through the prism of magic books. The two bulgarian empires are not treated as separate entities, but rather as one state restored after a period of byzantine rule over its. View the video of the history of the hilandar research project and the hrl and rcmss on the rcmss website in english, serbian or spanish. An illustrated history of slavic misery ebook poshlost. Choice, may 2002 for those wanting to explore ancient balkans history, the early slavs. I am fairly sure, from memory, that one of the robert low books from his oathsworn series has slavs in it, but i cant.
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