Paganism of Ancient Rus'
29.99 €
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Paganism of Ancient Rus'
29.99 €
The book belongs to the outstanding historian and archaeologist, expert in the culture of ancient and medieval Russia, Acad. B.A. Rybakov, the founder of the Russian school of medievists, and is a continuation of his fundamental two-volume study on the history of the origin and development of paganism of the most ancient Slavic-Russian ethnos. In the first part of the book the author investigates the problem of the origin of the pagan culture of the Proto-Slavic "Trojan Ages", mentioned by the brilliant author of the "Tale of Igor's Campaign"; those "dark ages" of the life of the Skolots of the Roman era and the East Slavic tribes of the early Middle Ages, during which the mythological and cult system was born, with which our largely contradictory ideas about paganism are associated. The second part, called by the author "The Apogee of Paganism", traces the formation of the pagan cult and the priestly class serving it as the most important social and cultural components of the early statehood of ancient Russia. In detail, without avoiding discussion of controversial issues, such as the existence of the supreme god Rod and Rozhanitsy or the origin of the pagan pantheon of Prince Vladimir I, the author describes the pre-Christian era of the 10th century, from which, in fact, begins the centuries-long period of confrontation in the origin of folk pagan and Byzantine Christian cultures planted from above as a state-wide Byzantine culture. In the third part, the author examines the era of actual Russian bigotry XI-XIII centuries, using both extensive archaeological and ethnographic material, and extremely diverse and still insufficiently studied Slavic folklore. The book is addressed to students and researchers of humanitarian specialties, as well as to a wide range of readers interested in the origins of the most ancient Slavic beliefs and cults.
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series Ancient Russia: Spiritual Culture and Statehood