title: The problem of urbanization in Northern Rus’
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metadata.value: Platonova, Nadezhda Igorevna
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-03-18T14:10:40Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-03-18T14:10:40Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2019-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Platonova N. I. The problem of urbanization in Northern Rus’. Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana, 2019, vol. 2 (26), pp. 109–134.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu19.2019.208
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/17202
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: In the 1990s the idea that proximity to trade routes was the main driving force of the process of
  urbanization of early medieval Rus’ again became dominant in Russia. But speaking of “trade,” as applied
  to the Viking Age, it is easy to fall into modernization. There was no “free trade” then. In order not to be
  sold into slavery, the merchant had to be protected by a society with authority in international affairs. It is
  from this perspective that one should consider the evidence of craft and trade preserved in the layers of
  early urban settlements. The combination of administrative-organizational and trade-craft factors in their
  functional spectrum is a key problem to be developed. An important aspect of the problem of urbanization
  is the study of the socio-cultural and economic base on which cities grew. The process of formation of
  Slavic central places in the Northwest Russia, which began in the 7th – 8th centuries, was interrupted during
  the Viking Age. The first “proto-cities” usually appeared in new places. Even where the continuity between
  the “hillfort” and the “city” was really revealed, the guarantee of this was either a socio-political cataclysm,
  or the inclusion of this item in the zone of new influence. In itself, the development of local centers can’t
  be identified with urbanization. The latter meant a radical change in the structure of archaic East European
  societies. The beginning of movement along the military trade routes, the arrival of Arab silver to the north
  opened up unprecedented prospects for the implementation of the tributes and products of trade exchange
  collected in the north. It was then that the first “proto-cities” emerged. The materials of the earliest Ladoga
  indicate that the beginning of the mass marketing of craft products to the rural population occurred already
  at the late 8th – early 9th centuries. For example, the production of glass according to the Eastern recipe
  was established there for the subsequent production of beads, which were the currency in the purchase of
  furs. This meant that by the end of the 8th century a fairly stable supply of the necessary components of the
  technological process from the Middle East was established. This did not testify to individual “trade”, but
  to the purposeful exploitation of the adjacent territories. One can interpret such kind of central places as
  administrative and organizational centers of a new type. They should not be confused with either “cities” or
  “rural places”: this is a special phenomenon in the social culture of Early Middle Ages. Its appearance was
  impossible without breaking the previous hierarchy of values, authorities, sacred ties. So one shouldn’t be
  surprised that “smooth continuity” of old and new centers is not observed. Not tribes and ethnic composition
  but, first of all, social roles were changed (although an influx of paramilitary contingent from the north actually took place). Proto-cities became the epicenters of the formation of new elite and new, Old Rus’ cultural
  traditions, which then quickly spread to the rural area.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The research was support as part of the RFBR project No. 18-09-40111 (“Antiquities”) “Sociocultural
  transformations in Eastern Europe and the formation of Russia: new materials, interpretations,
  generalizations”.
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
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana;Volume 2 (26)
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Early Middle Ages
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Northern Rus’
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: urbanization
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: basic concepts
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: archaeological data
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: protocities
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: administrative centers
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The problem of urbanization in Northern Rus’
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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