Reimagining Europe: Kievan Rus’ in the Medieval World, 988–1146

“His core argument is that if you strip away preconceived notions of what Europe is, you find that Rūs, as it was then constituted, had much deeper connections with western Europe and was more important in terms of its diplomatic, economic and outward-facing connections than we tend to assume. It should really be thought of as a Christian European power, no different from medieval France, the Holy Roman Empire or England. It’s an attempt to reframe what we mean by Europe.” Read more...

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Thomas Williams, Historian