The Earliest States of Eastern Europe. 2019–2020: Diplomatic practices of Antiquity and Middle Ages. Editor of the volume B.E. Rashkovskiy. Moscow: Dmitry Pozharsky University, 2020
The next volume of the almanac "The Earliest States of Eastern Europe" is devoted to the topic "Diplomatic Practices of Antiquity and Middle Ages". In the articles of the volume, the customs and traditions of ancient and medieval diplomacy are analyzed on the example of specific historical studies. Much attention is paid to the history of the development of diplomacy in ancient Russia and its neighbors. Some of the articles are based on materials from the readings "Eastern Europe in Antiquity and the Middle Ages" dedicated to the centenary of the birth of Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences Vladimir T. Pashuto and his scientific heritage. Finally, the materials of the volume include publications of newly translated historical sources into Russian.
Table of contents
- B. E. Rashkovskiy - Preface - 5-9
- E. N. Shveykovskaya - Vladimir Terent’evich Pashuto: traits to the portrait - 10-18
- A. A. Kouznetsov - Imperial features of diplomacy of the Vladimir principality among non-slavic nations - 19-41
- V. Y. Petrukhin - Vladimir T. Pashuto on the Old Russian practice of a treaty-rjad - 42-50
- M. V. Eliferova - An Anglo-Saxon trail in Russian-Byzantine treaties? - 51-72
- A. S. Shchavelev - Traces of Greek Orthography in Personal Names from the Igor’s Rurikovich Treaty (August 931 – December 944) - 73-83
- E. A. Melnikova - Twin Synonymic Word Combinations in the Russian and Byzantine Treaty of 911 and in Old Norse Legal Texts - 84-102
- I. E. Surikov - Evidences on Diplomatic Practices in some Important Ancient Greek Inscriptions Of the Classical Period - 103-121
- I. E. Ermolova - The Diplomacy by Priscus Panitus - 122-129
- V. V. Tishin - On the Date of the Letter from Türk Qaghan to the Byzantine Emperor Maurice - 130-157
- V. A. Arutyunova-Fidanyan - The Diplomacy and Diplomats in the “Caucasian dossier” of Constantine Porphyrogenitus - 158-170
- T. M. Kalinina - Shahribaraz/Shahriyar – the Governor of Derbent and the Ruses in the Work of al-Bal‘ami - 171-185
- T. Stepanov - The Times of st. Tsar Boris Michael the Baptizer (852–889; † 907): between the Real Historical facts of the Ninth Century and the Facts of Selective Memory - 186-214
- B. E. Rashkovskiy - “KING JOSEPHS’ LETTER”: THE PROBLEMS OF ITS AUTHENTICITY, VERACITY AND DIPLOMATIC PRATCICES - 215-231
- M. L. Lavrenchenko - Kinship Terminology and Diplomatic Formulas in the Rurikids Politics, c. 1140–1450 - 232-255
- E. L. Konyavskaya - Foreign Policy of Smolensk Princes (second half of the 12th – beginning of the 13th century) - 256-266
- T. V. Guimon, V. V. Tishin - A TURKIC GREETING FORMULA IN A RUS CHRONICLE: POLOVTSIAN ENVOYS TO PRINCE SVYATOSLAV OLGOVICH IN 1147 - 267-296
- D. Dąbrowski - Social Aspects of the Medieval Polish-Russian Relations (based on the Example of Marriages between the Romanovichi and the Piast Dinasties) - 297-331
- E. V. Litovskikh - Snorri Sturluson’s Diplomatic Activities at the Norwegian Royal Court - 332-348
- P. V. Lukin, S. V. Polekhov - Latin letter on the negotiations between Novgorod and the Hanse in 1292 - 349-372
- A. D. Scheglov - Ericus Olai. From ‘The History of the Kingdom of the Goths’. Translation of passages, introduction and comments - 373-391
- M. I. Drobyshev - [Рец. на кн.:] Kaldellis A. Romanland. Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium. London; Cambridge (Mass.): The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019. 374 p. - 392-397
- T. V. Guimon - [Рец. на кн.:] Shaw R. The Gregorian Mission to Kent in Bede’s Ecclesiastical History: Methodology and Sources. L.; N.Y.: Routledge, 2018. 276 p. - 398-410