title: The «Prague Empire» and the Lędzianie: Reflexions on the Emergence of the Slavic Identity in Eastern Europe
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Alimov, Denis E.
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2019-04-03T11:24:38Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2019-04-03T11:24:38Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: 10.21638/spbu19.2018.207
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/15443
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article deals with the emergence of the Slavic ethnic identity in the territory of Ancient Rus’.
  While seeking for a (hypothetical) answer to this question, the author focuses on contacts that existed during
  the 10th century between Kiev and the empire of the Přemyslids, in which the Slavic identity was inherited
  from Great Moravia. According to the author, the Slavic identity could penetrate into Kiev (from which it later
  came to Novgorod) from the Přemyslid realm via the well-known trade route that in the 10th century connected
  centres of Western and Central Europe with Kiev, Volga Bulgaria, and Khazaria. In doing so, the author
  attributes the leading role in the contacts of Kiev with Central Europe to the tribe of Lendians (Lendzaninoi /
  Lędzianie) mentioned in the Byzantine emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus’s treatise «De administrando
  imperio» (mid-10th century). In the author’s opinion, the Lendians were not only closely connected with the
  realm the Přemyslids, but also controlled Plisněsk, an important political and trade center, through which
  contacts between Slavic-speaking communities of Central Europe and the Middle Dnieper region were made.
  According to the author, of all the Slavic-speaking communities that had close contacts with the Russes, the
  Lendians were most capable for embracing the group name Slověnedue to the supralocal nature of their group identity and the possible influence of the Moravian (Olomouc) bishopric.While stressing that the emergence
  in Kiev and Novgorod of new non-tribal group names, including that of Slověne, was conditioned by changes
  in the social and cultural habitus of the Slavic-speaking population, which concentrated in the corresponding
  loci, the author expresses the idea that it was the Lendians who were the key link in the spread from west to
  east of the the Přemyslid realm’s («Prague empire»’s) «social knowledge», which contributed to the adoption
  of the Slavic identity in Eastern Europe.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The study was conducted within the framework of the research project supported by the Russian Fund for
  Fundamental Research, project «Political Formations in the Slavic World from the Seventh to the Tenth
  Centuries A. D.: Evolution of Power Structures and Ethno-Social Processes».
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
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: Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana;Issue 2(24)
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Slavic identity
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Slavic ethnicity
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Slověne
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Lędzianie
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The «Prague Empire» and the Lędzianie: Reflexions on the Emergence of the Slavic Identity in Eastern Europe
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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