title: Rus’ within and without the lists of peoples in the Primary Rus’ Chronicle
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metadata.value: Vilkul, Tatyana Leonidovna
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Nikolaev, Sergey Lvovich
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-09-11T13:57:20Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-09-11T13:57:20Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-03
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Vilkul T. L., Nikolaev S. L. Rus’ within and without the lists of peoples in the Primary Rus’ Chronicle. Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana, 2020, vol. 1 (27), pp. 138–160.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu19.2020.107
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/19441
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metadata.value: Scholars usually try to clear up the origine of the word Rus’, scantly attending the peculiarities
  of distribution of this name within the Primary Chronicle. At the same time endless discussion concerning
  the meaning of the ethnonym Rus’ to a large degree bound to the complex textual history of the chronicle.
  There are many textual discrepancies in this compilation, which arose as a result of discord in its sources.
  Compilers of the Chronicle have at their disposal previous writings, oral tradition and the Byzantine texts
  translated into Slavic. Considering the mention of Rus’ as ethnonym and politonym, we can distinguish two
  kinds of records. First, Rus’ along with other ethnonyms occurs in several lists of peoples. Second, Rus’
  appears alone in the Chronicle’s narrative. The aim of this paper is to explore the peculiarities of use of
  Rus’ in both cases. Rus’ alone is found mainly in the borrowings from the Byzantine sources and correlated
  with them texts in the chronical entries of the 9th–10th centuries. These are description of the campaigns
  against Constantinople and the treaties with the Greeks (about 60 mentions). While impact of translated
  texts onto the Chronicle is weakening, Rus’ alone appears from the last third of the 10th century also in the
  non-Byzantine narrative. Simultaneously, frequency of occurance is faded away: 11th and the beginning of
  the 12th century include about 15 mentions. Thus, it seems that the Byzantine texts, including the Chronicle
  of George Hamartolos, the Life of Basil the New, as well as the treaties with Greeks, contributed to
  preserve the ethnonym Rus’. A paradox is that the layer with the borrowings from Byzantine sources
  is believed to belong to the posterior constituent of the Primary Chronicle. As for the lists of peoples,
  which are found chiefly at the beginning of the Chronicle, some of them have apparently late origin,
  but others demonstrate unexpected depth of memory. The latter include enumeration of the descendants
  of biblical Japheth, inhabitants of the northern part of the universe, found in the Introduction of the
  Primary Chronicle. Early «Japhethic Lists» enumerate Fenno-Ugric tribes, followed by the Baltic and
  West European peoples dwelling along the Baltic sea on the way from the mouth of Western Dvina
  to the Scandinavian coast, and thence past England and Spain to the Mediterranean. Rome mentioned
  several times as the end of the journey, as well as some others details, might suppose a textual source
  or oral tradition preceding the Great Schism of the 1054. It is important that the lists of peoples demonstrate mess of use of the ethnonyms Rus’ and Varangians in the Chronicle, which overlap each other
  and demonstrate change of meaning.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana;Volume 1 (27)
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Old Rus’
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: medieval chronicles
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: ethnonym Rus’
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: politonym Rus’
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: ethnic categories
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: ethnicity
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Rus’ within and without the lists of peoples in the Primary Rus’ Chronicle
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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