CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2024
| Author | Katona, Csete |
|---|---|
| Title | Rus' warriorhood. Warfare, society and culture in the Viking Age East (ca. 750-1050) |
| Summary | This dissertation seeks to explore Rus’ warriorhood and its social and cultural aspects during the Viking Age (ca. 750–1050). It aims to contribute to the field of international viking studies through a multi-disciplinary examination of miscellaneous written sources and the archaeological evidence in a comparative perspective with the ‘(western) viking phenomenon’. It discusses various military roles and positions ‘eastern viking’ groups fulfilled in the territories from the Slavic world of today’s European Russia and Ukraine through the contemporary Byzantine Empire and the steppes to the fringes of the Islamic world. Warrior-merchants, raiders, mercenaries, retainers, and slave soldiers dotting this landscape came into close contacts with these cultural spheres, resulting in changes of the identity and social make-up of Rus’ warrior groups. This study of the society and culture of the Rus’, approached through connected themes of warfare, serves to define the Rus’ experience in relation to other eleventh-century ‘eastern viking’ groups and the western viking diasporas in general. |
| Supervisor | Laszlovszky, József |
| Department | Medieval Studies PhD |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2024/katona_csete.pdf |
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