Title The Rise and Demise of the Myth of the Rus' Land / by Charles J. Halperin

Published Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2022 Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000 2022

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 106 pages.) Series Beyond Medieval Europe Beyond medieval Europe Book collections on Project MUSE Contents The Rus' Land (tenth to fifteenth centuries) -- The Rus' Land and national consciousness -- The Tverian Land -- Novgorodian Land -- Suzdalian Land -- Pskovian Land -- Rus' Land and Ivan IV -- The Muscovite Land -- The Rus' Land in Ukraine and Belarus (fourteenth to seventeenth centuries) Summary The concept of the Rus' Land (russkaia zemlia) became and remained an historical myth of modern Russian nationalism as the equivalent of "Russia," but it was actually a political myth, manipulated to provide legitimacy. Its meaning was dynastic--territories ruled by a member of the Riurikid/Volodimerovich princely clan. This book traces the history of its use from the tenth to the seventeenth century, outlining its changing religious (pagan to Christian) and geographic elements (from the Dnieper River valley in Ukraine in Kievan Rus' to Muscovy in Russia) and considers alternative "land" concepts which failed to rise to the ideological heights of the Rus' Land. Although the Rus' Land was never an ethnic or national concept, and never expanded its appeal beyond an elite lay and clerical audience, understanding its evolution sheds light upon the cultural and intellectual history of the medieval and early modern East Slavs Notes Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Description based on print version record Subject Nationalism -- Russia Historiography. Nationalism. SUBJECT Russia -- Historiography Subject Russia. Form Electronic book Author Project Muse, distributor Project Muse. distributor ISBN 9781802700114 1802700110 9781802700565 1802700560

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