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Subject terms and keywords

Kievan Rus
History 862-1237
Russia - History - to 1533
Russia - History -1237-1480
Ukraine
Belarus
Church history
Russian Orthodox
iconology
art, medieval
art, Russian

Ivan the Terrible
Tsars
Emperors
St. Vladimir

History

Russia: A Historical Introduction from Kievan Rus' to the Present by John M. Thompson, et al.
Call Number: Van Pelt Library DK40 .T48 2017
ISBN: 9780813349855
Publication Date: 2017
Major trends and events from ancient Kievan Rus' to Vladimir Putin's presidency i
Medieval Russia, 980-1584 by Janet Martin
Call Number: Van Pelt Library. DK71 .M29 2007
ISBN: 9780521859165
Publication Date: 2007
A concise narrative of the history of Russia from the reign of Vladimir I through to the reign of Ivan IV
Claiming Crimea by Kelly O'Neill
Call Number: Van Pelt Library DK508.9.K78 O54 2017
ISBN: 9780300218299
Publication Date: 2017
An archive-based study of the initial conquest of the region.
Encyclopedia of Russian History
Call Number: Van Pelt Reference - Stacks. DK14 .E53 2004
ISBN: 0028656938
Publication Date: 2003
Providing a comprehensive discussion of Russia's people, politics, economics, religion and social systems from the earliest beginnings of the Russian nation to the rise and fall of the Soviet Union.
Historical Dictionary of Medieval Russia by Lawrence N. Langer
ISBN: 0810840804
Publication Date: 2001
Concise reference to most aspects of life in Medieval Russia from its founding in the mid-ninth century to the reign of Peter the Great--events, people, places and movements. Russia's founding in the mid-ninth century to the reign of Peter the Great.
Russia by Richard Joseph Stein
Call Number: Van Pelt Library. DK42 .R77 2010
ISBN: 9780824210991
Publication Date: 2010
An historical analysis of Russia from the founding of Kievan Rus' through czarist rule, revolution, civil war, the rise and fall of the Soviet Union, and the post Soviet era.
Portraits of Old Russia: Imagined Lives of Ordinary People 1300-1725 by Donald Ostrowski and Marshall T. Poe
Call Number: Van Pelt Library. DK32 .P67 2011
ISBN: 9780765627285
Publication Date: 2011
Historians describe the lives of representative lives over four centuries
Cambridge History of Russia: From Early Rus' to 1689 by Maureen Perrie, ed.
Call Number: Available online

Art & Culture

Studies in Early Russian Art by Viktor Nikitich Lazarev
Call Number: Fine Arts Library. N7956.A1 L39 2000
ISBN: 0907132987
Publication Date: 2001
See also
Moscow School of Icon-Painting, Fine Arts Library. N7956 .L333
The Russian Icon: From its Origins to the Sixteenth Century
Fine Arts Library. N8189.R9 L3813 1997
The Icon Handbook: A Guide to Understanding Icons and the Liturgy, Symbols and Practices of the Russian Orthodox Church by David Coomler
Call Number: Fine Arts Library. N8189.R9 C66 1995
ISBN: 0872432106
Publication Date: 1995
The Art and Architecture of Russia by George Heard Hamilton
Call Number: Fine Arts Library - Core Reading Collection. N6981 .H34 1983
ISBN: 0300053274
Publication Date: 1992
This revised and updated history confines itself to Russia west of the Urals, the Russia whose artistic beginnings lay in the response of a newly settled people to the impact of Christianity and the Byzantine Empire. I

Finding journals articles and book chapters

International Medieval Bibliography
A multidisciplinary bibliography of Europe, North Africa and the Near East (300-1500), providing a comprehensive, current bibliography of articles in journals and miscellany volumes.

Search "all fields" Russia, and select subject terms Art History Or Architecture Or Religious Life
ABSEES (American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies)
North American scholarship on East-Central Europe, Russia, and the former Soviet Union. Try searching Russia as a "free text" term and Byzanti* OR medieval OR Rus as subject terms.
Humanities Source
Historical Abstracts
Search Humanities Source and Historical Abstracts togetherr with ABSEES. Click on "choose database" at the top of the Ebsco search screen and select all three databases from the alphabetical listing

Rus

Religion and Faith

Christianization and the Rise of Christian Monarchy: Scandinavia, Central Europe and Rus' c. 900-1200 by Nora Berend, ed.
Call Number: Van Pelt Library. BR735 .C478 2007
ISBN: 9780521876162
Publication Date: 2007
Drawing on history, archaeology and art history, this book explores the role of the spread of Christianity and the formation of new principalities in the birth of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Bohemia, Hungary, Poland and Rus' around the year 1000.
Tapestry of Russian Christianity: Studies in History and Culture by Nickolas Lupinin,et al., eds.
Call Number: Van Pelt Library. BX485 .T37 2016
Publication Date: 2016
Also available online through the OSU Knowledge Bank (click the title to go online edition)
A History of the Russian Church to 1448 by John Fennell
Call Number: Van Pelt Library. BX485 .F45 1995
ISBN: 0582080681
Publication Date: 1995
This text includes coverage the beginnings of Kievan Christianity; the organization of the Russian Church; the process of Christianization; the Russian Church and the Mongols; and landownership by the Church and the monasteries.
Splendour and Glory: Art of the Russian Orthodox Church by Vincent Boele
Call Number: Fine Arts Library. N7956.A1 S75 2011
ISBN: 9789078653257
Publication Date: 2011
Attention focuses on the origins and development of Russian icon painting, with Kiev as its birthplace.
Byzantium-Rus-Russia: Studies in the Translation of Christian Culture by Simon Franklin
Call Number: Van Pelt Library. DK71 .F69 2002
ISBN: 0860788903
Publication Date: 2002
The Christian culture of Rus (the medieval precursor of modern Russia, Ukraine and Belarus)