Research Catalog

Title

Byzantium and the Slavs / Dimitri Obolensky.

Author

Obolensky, Dimitri, 1918-2001

Publication

Crestwood, N.Y. : St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1994.

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Details

Description

xi, 323 p.; 23 cm.

Subjects

• History
• To 1533
• Byzantine Empire > History > 1081-1453
• Byzantine Empire > History > 527-1081
• Byzantine Empire > Relations > Russia
• Russia > Relations > Byzantine Empire
• Methodius, Saint, Apostle of the Slavs, approximately 825-884 or 885
• Cyril, Saint, Apostle of the Slavs, approximately 827-869
• Russia > History > To 1533
• Russia > Civilization > Byzantine influences
• Kyivan Rus > Relations > Byzantine Empire
• Byzantine Empire > Relations > Kievan Rus

Genre/Form

History

Note

• "The chapters of this book are reprinted from two volumes of my Collected Studies published by Variorum Reprints: the first ten from Byzantium and the Slavs (1971), the last two from The Byzantine Inheritance of Eastern Europe (1982). The first of these volumes has long been out of print." -- Introduction, p. vii.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The principles and methods of Byzantine diplomacy -- The empire and its northern neighbors 565-1018 -- Russia's Byzantine heritage -- Byzantium, Kiev and Moscow : a study in Ecclesiastical relations -- Byzantium and Russia in the late Middle Ages -- Modern Russian attitudes to Byzantium -- Sts. Cyril and Methodius, apostles of the Slavs -- The heritage of Cyril and Methodius in Russia -- Sts. Cyril and Methodius and the Christianization of the Slavs -- The Bogomils -- The cult of St. Demetrius of Thessaloniki in the history of Byzantine-Slav relations -- Byzantine frontier zones and cultural exchanges.

ISBN

088141008X

LCCN

^^^94025507^

OCLC

• 30667134
• SCSB-10822229

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library