HISTORY
HIS-20005: Rus´: Medieval Russia from the Varangians
to the Romanovs
Semester 1 : 2007-2008
Lecture Bibliography
[Please note that * indicates that the item in question is in the Nuffield Library]
General Texts
ACTON, E.
*AUTY, R., &
OBOLENSKY, D.
*DMYTRYSHYN, B.
*DUKES, P.
*KOCHAN, L., &
ABRAHAM, R.
*LANGER, L.N.
*MARTIN, J.
*MILNER-GULLAND, R.
*PIPES, R.
*RIASANOVSKY, N.
*VERNADSKY, G.
*WIECZYNSKI, J.
Russia (1986), chaps, 1-2 [DK 40. A2; + 1 copy in main stack]
An Introduction to Russian History (1976), chaps. 2-3
[DK 40. A8]
A History of Russia (1977), chaps. 1-11 [DK 40. D5]
A History of Russia, Medieval, Modern and Contemporary
(1974/1990), chaps. 1-3 [DK 40. D8; + 2 copies in main stack]
The Making of Modern Russia, 2nd edn., (1983), chaps. 1-5
[DK 40. K6]
Historical Dictionary of Medieval Russia (2002) [DK71. L2]
Medieval Russia 980-1584 (1995) [DK 71. M2]
The Russians (1997) [DK 32. M4]
Russia under the Old Regime (1974), chaps. 1-4 [DK 17. P4; 2
copies]
A History of Russia, 5th edn. (1993) [DK 40. R4]
A History of Russia, vols I-IV (1943-59); volumes referred to
below by individual titles [DK 40. V3]
The Russian Frontier (1976) [DK 18.7. W4]
Primary Sources
BERRY, L., &
CRUMMEY, R. (eds.)
Rude and Barbarous Kingdom (1968); 16th-century
English accounts of naval visits by Richard Chancellor and
Anthony Jenkinson, the diplomatic missions of Sir Thomas
Randolph, a series of letters (in verse) from George Turberville,
the travels of Sir Jerome Horsey, and Giles Fletcher’s Of the
Russe Commonwealth [see also Fletcher below] [DK 21. B3]
*BRERETON, H.
The Present Miseries of Russia (1614) [DK 111. B7]
*CROSS, S.H., &
The Russian Primary Chronicle (1953); 12th-century
SHERBOWITZ-WETZOR, account of events from the 9th century onwards
O.P. (eds.)
[PG 3300. L43C7]
*DAWSON, C. (ed.)
The Mongol Mission (1955; and repr. 1979); the 13th-century
accounts of Carpini and Rubruck [BX 3220 and DS 6. D2]
1
*DMYTRYSHYN, B. (ed.)
FENNELL, J. (ed.)
*FENNELL, J. (ed.)
FLETCHER, G.
*FORBES, N., &
MICHELL, R. (eds.)
GIBB, H.A.R. (ed.)
HAKLUYT, R.
HERBERSTEIN, S. von
HOWES, R. (ed.)
*KAISER, D., & MARKER, G.
(eds.)
MARGARET, J.
*RIHA, T. (ed.)
STADEN, H. von
STANLEY of ALDERLEY
Lord, (ed.)
TELFER, J.B. (ed.)
Medieval Russia: a source book 900-1700 (1967): excerpts from
the Russian Primary Chronicle [see Cross above], the De
administrando imperio of the Byzantine Emperor Constantine
VII Porphyrogenitus (mid 10th century), Russian laws, the Tale
of the Host of Igor, treaty of Novgorod with the Hanseatic
League, the Chronicle of Novgorod, Kurbsky’s correspondence
with Ivan IV [see Fennell below], and travellers’ accounts
(Barbaro, Herberstein, Fletcher) [DK 70. A2D5]
The Correspondence between Prince A.M. Kurbsky and Tsar
Ivan IV of Russia (1955); 16th century [DK 107. K8A2]
Prince A.M. Kurbsky’s History of Ivan IV (1965); 16th-century
Russian account [DK 106. K8]
Of the Rus Commonwealth (1590); 16th-century English account
[DK 21. F5]
The Chronicle of Novgorod 1016-1471 (1914)
[DA 20. C2]
The Travels of Ibn Battûta A.D. 1325-1354, vol. II (1962),
pp.468-500; 14th-century Muslim account of the Golden Horde
[G 161. H2]
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries
of the English Nation, vol. II (1903) [G 225]
Description of Moscow and Muscovy (1557); 16th-century
German account [DK 21. H3]
Testaments of the Grand Princes of Moscow (1987)
[DK 70. A2H6]
Reinterpreting Russian History (1994) [DK 3. M2]; translated
source extracts & short essays by modern historians
The Russian Empire and Grand Duchy of Muscovy (1606/1983);
French account of the early 17th century [DK 111. M313]
Readings in Russian Civilisation, vol. I (1964): chap. 2, excerpts
from the Russian Primary Chronicle [see also Cross above];
chap. 3, excerpts from medieval Russian laws; chap. 4,
Chronicle of Novgorod (11th century) [see also Forbes above];
chap. 5, excerpts from medieval Russian epics; chap. 7, excerpts
from the Kurbsky-Ivan IV correspondence [see also Fennell
above]; chap. 9, excerpts from St. Epiphanus’s The Life of St.
Sergius (14th century) [DK 32. R4]
The Land and Government of Muscovy (1987); 16th-century
German account [DK 106. S8]
Travels to Tana and Persia by Josafa Barbaro and
Ambrogio Contarini (1873); Italian accounts of the late 15th and
early 16th centuries [G 161. H2]
The Bondage and Travels of Johann Schiltberger...1396-1427
(1885, repr.1907) [G 161. H2]
Periodicals
Cahiers du Monde Russe et Soviétique [Per. DK 1. C2]
Canadian Slavonic Papers [Per. PG 1. C2]
Russian Review [Per. DK 1. R711]
Slavic Review [Per. DK 1. S45]
Speculum [Per. PN 661. S6]
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society [Per. DA 20. R6]
Bibliographies for individual lectures
1.
Slavs, Greeks and Norsemen
*CROSS, S.H. &
The Russian Primary Chronicle (1953), pp.51-126
SHERBOWITZ-WETZOR, O.P. (trans.)
*MARTIN, J.
Medieval Russia 980-1584 (1995), chap.1
*RIASANOVSKY, N.V.
A History of Russia, 5th edn. (1993), chap.3
*FRANKLIN, S., &
The Emergence of Rus' 750-1200 (1996) [DK 73. F7; 3
SHEPARD, J.,
copies]
*DOLUKHANOV, P.M.
The Early Slavs: Eastern Europe from the initial settlement to
the Kievan Rus (1996) [DJK 27. D6]
2.
Kievan Rus´
*MARTIN, J.
*RIASANOVSKY, N.V.
*FRANKLIN, S., &
SHEPARD, J.,
*VERNADSKY, G.
DIMNIK, M.
3.
Medieval Russia 980-1584 (1995), chaps. 1-4
A History of Russia, 4th ed. (1984), chaps. 4 & 7
The Emergence of Rus' 750-1200 (1996) [DK 73. F7; 3
copies]
Kievan Russia (1948), parts IV & VIII
‘The “Testament” of Yaroslav “the Wise”: a re-examination’,
Canadian Slavonic Papers, 29 (1987), pp. 369-86
Lord Novgorod
*FORBES, R., & MICHELL, R.
(trans.)
*MARTIN, J.
*RIASANOVSKY, N.V.
*VERNADSKY, G.
THOMPSON, M.W.
The Chronicle of Novgorod 1016-1471 (1914)
Medieval Russia 980-1584 (1995), chaps. 2 & 4
A History of Russia, 4th ed. (1984), chap. 9
Kievan Russia (1948), part II
Novgorod the Great (1967) [DK 511. N7T4]
4.
Nomadic Neighbours
GOLDEN, P.
GOLDEN, P.
*MARTIN, J.
*SINOR, D. (ed.)
*WIECZYNSKI, J.
*DMYTRYSHYN, B.
5.
The Advent of the Mongols
*DMYTRYSHYN, B.
*FENNELL, J.
*MORGAN, D.
*MARTIN, J.
*VERNADSKY, G.
6.
Medieval Russia: a source book 900-1700 (1967), pp. 87-93
The Crisis of Medieval Russia 1200-1304 (1983), chaps. 4 & 5
[DK 90. F3; 4 copies]
The Mongols (1986), pp. 136-45 [DS 19. M6; 2 copies]
Medieval Russia 980-1584 (1995), pp. 134-40
The Mongols and Russia (1953), chaps. 1 & 2
The ‘Tatar Yoke’
*DE HARTOG, L.
*FENNELL, J.
*FENNELL, J.
*HALPERIN, C.J.
*MARTIN, J.
*OSTROWSKI, D.
7.
‘Nomads and their sedentary neighbours in pre-Cinggisid
Eurasia’ (1991), in his *Nomads and their Neighbours in the
Russian Steppe (2002) [DK 72. G6]
‘Aspects of the nomadic factor in the economic development of
Kievan Rus´’ (1991), in his *Nomads and their Neighbours in
the Russian Steppe (2002) [DK 72. G6]
Medieval Russia 980-1584 (1995), pp. 47-56, 129-33
The Cambridge History of Early Inner Asia (1990), pp. 263-84
[DS 329.4. S4; 2 copies]
The Russian Frontier (1976), chaps. 2-3
Medieval Russia: a source book 900-1700 (1967), pp. 71-86
(‘The Tale of the Host of Igor’)
Russia and the Mongol Yoke (1996) [DK 90. H2]
The Crisis of Medieval Russia 1200-1304 (1983), chaps. 5 & 6
[DK 90. F3; 5 copies]
The Emergence of Moscow 1304-1359 (1968) [DK 90. F3; 2
copies]
Russia and the Golden Horde; the Mongol impact on medieval
Russian history (1985) [DK 90. H2]
Medieval Russia 980-1584 (1995), pp.140-98
Muscovy and the Mongols: Cross-cultural influences on the
steppe frontier, 1304-1589 (1998) [DK 90. O8]
The Gathering of the Russian Lands
*MARTIN, J.
OSTROWSKI, D.
*PIPES, R.
*RIASANOVSKY, N.V.
Medieval Russia 980-1584 (1995), chaps. 8-10
‘The Mongol origins of Muscovite political institutions’, Slavic
Review 49 (1990)
Russia under the Old Regime (1974), chap. 3
A History of Russia, 5th edn. (1993), chaps. 11-13
8.
Rus´ and the Catholic World
*MARTIN, J.
DVORNIK, F.
CROSS, S.H.
*CHRISTIANSEN, E.
ZATKO, J.J.
9.
Ivan the Terrible
CHERNIAVSKY, M.,
CRUMMEY, R.O.
*FENNELL, J. (ed.)
*GREY, I.
*MARTIN, J.
PAVLOV, A., & PERRIE, M.
*TROYAT, H.
10.
Medieval Russia 980-1584 (1995), pp.42-7, 124-7, 162-5, 204-6,
216-18
‘The Kiev state and its relations with Western Europe’,
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 4th series, 29
(1947); reprinted in R.W. SOUTHERN (ed.), Essays in Medieval
History (1968), pp. 1-23 [D 119. S6]
‘Medieval Russian contacts with the West’, Speculum 10
(1935)
The Northern Crusades: the Baltic and the Catholic frontier
1100-1525 (1980) [DK 511. B3C4]; 2nd edn. (1997) [D173. C4]
‘The Union of Suzdal, 1222-1252’, Journal of Ecclesiastical
History 8 (1957)
‘Ivan the Terrible as Renaissance prince’, Slavic Review 27
(1968)
‘Ivan IV: reformer or tyrant?’, in *KAISER, D., & MARKER,
G. (eds.), Reinterpreting Russian History (1994), pp. 158-63
[DK 3. M2]
Prince A.M. Kurbsky’s History of Ivan IV (1965)
Ivan the Terrible (1964) [DK 106. G7)
Medieval Russia 980-1584 (1995), chap.11
Ivan the Terrible (2003) [DK106 .G7]
Ivan the Terrible (2001) [DK 106. T7]
The Time of Troubles
DUNNING, C.
*MARTIN, J.
PERRIE, M.
PLATONOV, S.
SOLOV’EV, S.
SOLOV’EV, S.
22nd August, 2007
Russia’s First Civil War (2001) [DK111.D8]
Medieval Russia 980-1584 (1995), chap.12
Pretenders and Popular Monarchism in Early Modern Russia:
The False Tsars of the Time and Troubles (1995) [DK111.P3]
The Time of Troubles (1970) [DK106 .G7]
History of Russia, vol. XIV: the Time of Troubles (1989)
[DK40.S6]
History of Russia, vol. XV: the Time of Troubles (1989)
[DK40.S6]