Portraits of Medieval Eastern Europe provides imagined biographies of twenty figures from all walks of life in Eastern Europe from 800 to 1250, giving an insight into medieval life from Scandinavia to Byzantium. Accompanied by an interactive companion website, it is the perfect teaching aid to support and excite students of medieval Eastern Europe.
Donald Ostrowski is Research Advisor in the Social Sciences and Lecturer in History at the Harvard University Extension School. His previous publications include Muscovy and the Mongols: Cross-Cultural Influences on the Steppe Frontier 1304-1589 (1998) and over 100 articles and review essays. He is also the editor of The Povest' vremennykh let: An Interlinear Collation and Paradosis, 3 vols. (2003), and a co-editor of four collections of studies.
Christian Raffensperger is Associate Professor of History at Wittenberg University, as well as an associate of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. He has published multiple books including Reimagining Europe: Kievan Rus' in the Medieval World (2012) and Ties of Kinship: Genealogy and Dynastic Marriage in Kyivan Rus' (2016). He is also the series editor for Beyond Medieval Europe, a book series published by ARC Humanities Press.
List of figures
List of maps
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction - Donald Ostrowski
PART 1: Rus' and Northern Europe
PART 2: Eurasian Steppe
PART 3: Byzantium and Southeastern Europe
PART 4: Central Europe
PART 5: Travelers to Strange Lands
Conclusion - Christian A. Raffensperger
Index