The Arabic primary sources from the early medieval period have long existed in the modern consciousness of the scholarship, however, differing interpretations, mistranslations, and omissions have contributed to the state of already existing confusion permeating the matter of the Rus origin, influence, and interactions in their theatre of action in ...
The southern thrust of the Rus in the ninth–tenth centuries is to be explained not only by Viking hunger for wealth and glory, but also by the large, rapidly growing market for furs in the Caliphate. In order to reach that market, the Rus had to cross the Khazars’ sphere of influence in the steppes and wooded steppes of the Volga and Don regions. T...
This study examines and compares the beginning of the process of Viking Age Scandinavian migration to Eastern and Western Europe from the mid-eighth to mid-tenth centuries. While there have been comparisons of this process within the same geographic area, there have been few studies with detailed discussions which encompass both eastern and western...
In this paper we analyze a transmedial journey that ends on the creation of a new genre, the LitRPG (Literary RPG). This process begins in the seventies when certain literatures and prominent authors, like Tolkien, Lovecraft, Moorcock, Howard et al., are interactivized with the creation of the first RPG (Role Playing Games). Later, with the appeara...
In the wake of the recent wave of interest in the ties between Early Rus and the Latin world, this dissertation investigates conceptions and depictions of Latin Christians in Early Rusian texts. Unlike previous smaller-scale studies, the present study takes into consideration all indigenous Early Rusian narrative sources which make reference to Lat...
The late Byzantine empire maintained close ties with the principalities of Rus, but these have been studied almost exclusively in the context of the crises surrounding the appointments of rival metropolitans for the East Slavonic lands in the mid- to late fourteenth century. Other types of sources show, however, that Rus was a subject of serious sc...
This paper deals with testing the method Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) on the copy of the Piraeus-lion in Historic Museum in Stockholm. The purpose is to find out if it is possible to gather more information about the runic inscriptions. RTI is a method that records the surface normal of individual pixels in a digital photograph by analy...
