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100	1	0	_aMund, Stéphane _eauthor
245	0	0	_aSt. MUND, The Creation and Spread of Western Knowledge about the "Russian" World in the Middle Ages (End of the Tenth to Middle of the Fifteenth Centuries) (Part 1)
260			_c2004.
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520			_aThis article is a synthesis of the knowledge on Russian culture in Western Europe between the end of the tenth century (when the Kievan Russia converted to Christianity and its sovereigns established relationships with other Christian kings) and the middle of the fifteenth century (just before Muscovite Russia, which had succeeded Kievan Rus', joined the political and economic Western world). It presents a systematic survey of all Western European medieval sources about Russia over this long period. These include chronicles, sagas, encyclopedias, travel narratives, maps, or chivalric literature. These sources are analyzed according to a typological approach, i.e., focusing on the authors, their origin and educational background, on the characteristics of the texts and on the information they provide about Russia. This typological approach shows that an image of Russia emerged in medieval Western Europe, however partial and fragmentary it may have been. Not until the late fifteenth and the early sixteenth century was Russia really discovered by Western European diplomats and merchants.
690			_aWestern world
690			_aRussia
690			_arepresentation
690			_aEastern Slavs
690			_atypology of sources
786	0		_nLe Moyen Age | Volume CX | 2 | 2004-06-01 | p. 275-314 | 0027-2841
856	4	1	_uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-le-moyen-age-2004-2-page-275?lang=en
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