Christian Russia in the Making

Andrzej Poppe

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN: 9781000939064
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: World History

The present collection of studies by Andrzej Poppe in many ways represents a continuation of the research brought together a quarter century ago in the author's previous Variorum volume. The focal themes are the political circumstances of the 'baptism of Russia' and the processes by which Rus' became a Christian country, an era marked by the emergence of indigenous saints in royal and monastic garb. Relations with the Byzantine world, both political and ecclesiastical, are often to the fore, but as Poppe shows, those with the West, from the Carolingians onwards, were important too. Many of the articles are provided with additional notes, and the volume includes three pieces previously unpublished in English, including an introductory survey of the Rurikid dynasty, and a major new study of the process by which Vladimir the Great became a saint.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series Page
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• I The Rurikid dynasty or seven hundred years of shaping Eastern Europe
• II Once again concerning the baptism of Olga, Archontissa of Rus’ (with Addendum, pp. 278a-279a)
• III How the conversion of Rus’ was understood in the eleventh century
• IV Two concepts of the conversion of Rus’ in Kievan writings
• V The Christianization and ecclesiastical structure of Kievan Rus’ to 1300
• VI Leontios, Abbot of Patmos, candidate for the metropolitan See of Rus’
• VII Losers on earth, winners from heaven. The assassinations of Boris and Gleb in the making of eleventh-century Rus’
• VIII The sainthood of Vladimir the Great: veneration in-the-making
• IX Words that serve the authority: on the title of “Grand Prince” in Kievan Rus’ (with Addendum, pp. 185a-191a)
• X On the title of “Grand Prince” in the Tale of Ihor’s Campaign
• XI Some observations on the bronze doors of the St. Sophia in Novgorod (with Addendum, pp. 419a-420a)
• XII On the so-called Chersonian antiquities (with Addendum, p. 105)
• Index