title: NORMANIST IDEAS IN PETRUS PETREIUS’ WORKS
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Štěříková, Hana
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2017-12-15T12:32:29Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2017-12-15T12:32:29Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2017-06
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu21.2017.111
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/8748
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The paper focuses on two most important historiographic works of Petrus Petreius, a
  Swedish delegate in the Grand Duchy of Moscow during the Time of Troubles at the
  beginning of the 17th century: Fair and True Relation… (1608) and Regni Muschowitici
  sciographia (1614–1615). Some researchers consider Petreius as being the first
  Normanist and claim he connected the theory of the Scandinavian origin of Varangians
  with official Swedish foreign policy. Analysis of Petreius’ texts shows that his works
  were directed especially against Polish Catholics and the Polish king Sigismund III
  Vasa, who was the prime rival of the Swedish king at that time. The first of the analysed texts Fair and True Relation… deals with this matter by describing Russia and its
  inhabitants as an unfortunate neighbour in danger and in need of help. Nevertheless,
  it doesn’t mention Varangians or anything from early Russian history at all. On the
  other hand, in two places within the voluminous Regni Muschowitici sciographia, he
  describes several theories about the origin of Varangians, yet most of them have proved
  not to be original but copied from other sources, of which Petreius’ largest work have
  been compiled (mostly from Rerum Moscoviticarum Commentarii by Siegmund von
  Herberstein). Petreius can possibly be considered a Normanist, but not very decided
  one and definitely not the first one. His main contribution today seems being mainly
  educational, as he was the first to promote the propagation of Russian language and
  culture in Sweden.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: other
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Scandinavian Philology;Volume 15; Issue 1
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Petrus Petreius
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: normanist theory
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Varangians
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Time of Troubles
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: NORMANIST IDEAS IN PETRUS PETREIUS’ WORKS
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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