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This book sets out to answer the question of why Eastern Church writers showed no interest in analytical reasoning - the so-called "intellectual silence" of Rus' culture - while Western Church writers, by the time of the Scholastics, routinely incorporated analytical reasoning into their defences of the faith.

Offers a new perspective on the "feudal revolution" by comparing forms of social and political organization in the Kingdom of the Rus and Latin Europe.

Uniquely combining Old Norse sources and Russian evidence, this book demonstrates what a large part Eastern Europe played in the lives and imagination of medieval Scandinavians.

Architecture is shown to be a reliable "textual" source for understanding dynastic state development in Central Europe in the tenth and eleventh centuries.

The concept of the Rus' Land became and remained an historical myth of modern Russian nationalism as the equivalent of "Russia." This book looks at the history of the use of the concept of the Rus' Land from the tenth to the seventeenth century.