Bibliography

(Recommended Titles are in bold)


  • Brumfield, William ed. Christianity and the Arts in Russia. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge 1991.

  • Carmichael, Joel. An Illustrated History of Russia. Reynal and Company: New York.

  • Carroll-Clark, Susan. A Day in the Life of Novgorod: A Preparatory Handbook for the Year 6534. Canton of Eoforwic: Ontario 1994.

  • Charmot, Mary. Russian Painting and Sculpture. Pergamon Press, Macmillan and Company, New York 1963. Chapter 1 is on icon painting and church decoration c.1000-1700.

  • Chennault, Jenny. Russian Folklore. The Compleat Anachronist #34. Society for Creative Anachronism: Milpitas, California, 1987.

  • Cross, Samuel Hazard and Shenbowitz-Wetzor, Olgerd trans. The Russian Primary Chronicle. The Medieval Academy ofAmerica: Cambridge, Massachusetts 1953.

  • De Villehardouin, Geoffry. The Conquest of Constantinople.

  • Dmytryshyn, Basil ed. Medieval Russia: A Source Book 900-1700. The Dryden Press, Illinois, 1973. Includes translations of many early documents.

  • Edwards, Mike. "Genghis Khan" National Geographic Magazine. National Geographic Society: Washington, DC, December, 1996.

  • ____________. "Searching for Scythians" National Geographic Magazine. National Geographic Society: Washington, DC, September, 1996.

  • ____________. "Sons of Genghis Khan" National Geographic Magazine. National Geographic Society: Washington, DC, February, 1997.

  • Evans, Helen and Wixom, Williams. The Glory of Byzantium: Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era A.D. 843-1261. The Metropolitan Museum: New York 1997.

  • Fedotov, George P. The Russian Religious Mind: Kievan Christianity The Tenth to the Thirteenth Centuries. Harper and Row: New York 1960.

  • Gudzy, N.K., Jones, Susan Wilbur trans. History of Early Russian Literature. Macmillan and Company: New York, 1949.

  • Hamilton, George Heard. The Art and Architecture of Russia. Yale University Press, New Haven, 1983.

  • Hanna, George H. tran. Outline History of the U.S.S.R. Foreign Language Publishing House: Moscow, 1960.

  • Harcave, Sidney ed. Readings in Russian History Volume I from Ancient Times to the Abolition of Serfdom. Thomas Y. Crowell Company: New York, 1968.

  • Howes, Robert C.trans. The Tale of the Campaign of Igor: A Russian Epic Poem of the Twelfth Century. W.W. Norton and Company, Inc.: New York, 1973.

  • Hubbs, Joanna. Mother Russia: the Feminine Myth in Russian Culture. Indiana University Press: Bloomington, 1993. Delves deeply into the theme of goddess worship in Russia. Scholarship has been criticized as speculative.

  • Karger, M. and Cook, K.M. trans. Novgorod the Great. Architectural Guidebook Progress Publishers: Moscow, 1973.

  • Kaiser, Daniel H and Marker, Gary. Reinterpreting Russian History: Readings 860-1860. Oxford University Press: New York 1994.

  • Kolchin, B.A. Wooden Artefacts from Medieval Russia Ed. A.V. Cernetsov BAR International Series 495 (1989).*

  • Levin, Eve. Sex and Society in the World of Orthodox Slavs, 900-1700. Cornell University Press: Ithaca, 1989.

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  • Lindstrom, Thais S. A Concise History of Russian Literature Volume I: From the Beginnings to Chekov. New York University Press: New York, 1966.

  • Marshall, Robert. Storm From the East: from Genghis Khan to Khubilai Khan. University of California Press: Berkeley, 1993.

  • Mitchell, Robert and Forbes, Neville trans. The Chronicle of Novgorod 1016-1471. Camden Third Series Volume XXV: London 1914.*

  • Moscow Museum of Art and Industry. Medieval Russian Ornament in Full Color From Illuminated Manuscripts. Dover Publications Inc., New York 1994.

  • Nabokov, Vladimir trans. The Song of Igor's Campaign: An Epic of the Twelfth Century. Weidenfeld and Nicolson: London. Most readable translation of Kievan Russian epic.

  • Neville, Peter. A Traveller's History of Russia and the USSR. Interlink Books: New York, 1994.

  • Nickel, Heinrich L., Alisa Jaffa trans. Medieval Architecture in Eastern Europe. Edition Leipzig: German Democratic Republic.

  • Nicolaleff, Nina and Phelan, Nancy. The Art of Russian Cooking. Doubleday and Company, Inc: New York 1969.

  • Riasanovsky, Nicholas V. A History of Russia. Oxford University Press, New York 1977

  • Riha, Thomas ed. Readings in Russian Civilization, Russia Before Peter the Great, 900-1700. The University of Chicago Press: Chicago, 1970. Include translations of many early documents.

  • Smith, R.E.F. and Christian, David. Bread and Salt: A Social and Economical History of Food and Drink in Russia. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1984.

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  • Thompson, M.W. Novgorod the Great. Evelyn, Adams and Mackay, 1967. Prime source for artifacts and material culture, many illustrations and drawings.

  • Tkach, Yuri. History of Ukranian Costume. Bayda Press: Melbourne, 1980.

  • Vernadsky, George. Kievan Russia. Yale University Press: New Haven, 1966.

  • ____________. Medieval Russian Laws. Octagon Books: New York, 1965.

  • ____________. The Mongols and Russia. Yale University Press: New Haven, 1966.

  • Volkoff, Vladimir. Vladimir the Russian Viking, 960-1015. Overlook Press, 1985. Novel, biography of Russian Prince based on careful historical research.

  • Wallace, Robert. Rise of Russia. Time-Life Books, New York 1967. Many illustrations.

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