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Parution : Medievalism in Russia and Ukrainian Political Discourses

Anastasija Ropa (dir.), Medievalism in Russian and Ukrainian Political Discourses, Trivent Publishing, 2025.

Medievalism has been a common and hardly innocent practice in Eastern European political discourses ever since the dissolution of the USSR in the 1990s. To use but one example, both Russia and Ukraine have laid claims on such prominent historical figures as Prince Vladimir / Volodymyr the Great, Princess Olga, Boris and Gleb/Hlib, as well as on such semi-legendary characters as Ilya of Murom. The recent military conflict has led to a renewal of interest in the history of medieval Rus’ and to the rewriting and falsification of this history, particularly in the public sphere, education and political discourse. This multidisciplinary volume draws together contributions from scholars from different countries and different disciplinary backgrounds, who analyze a variety of media and sources in which medievalisms can be manifested. The authors examine the uses of medievalising statues, fiction, cartoons, tourism and popular history in Ukrainian and Russian political discourses. The aim of this volume is to take a balanced and wide-ranging approach to medievalism as a political weapon and a cultural mainstay and to facilitate a fruitful and respectful dialogue among scholars coming from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds with an interest in Slavic studies, medievalism, the use of history in public discourse and the history of ex-Soviet and post-communist countries.

 

Table des matières

Introduction. Whose Medieval Past? Anastasija Ropa, Edgar Rops

Prince Vladimir and Ilya of Murom: Whose Heroes? Edgar Rops, Anastasija Ropa

Leo Mol and St. Volodymyr: Chiselling the Myth of Rus’-Ukraine for the Diaspora and the Western World. Anastasija Ropa

History Serves the Motherland: Alexander Nevsky in Russian Political and Militarist Discourse (2018-2023). Olga Kalashnikova

“Peresvet’s Victory” in Mariupol: Notes on a Medieval Battle Narrative and its Contemporary Applications. Kati Parppei

Global Medievalism in Contemporary Vyborg. Aleksandr Rusanov, Alexandra Kolesnik

Conclusion: The Seductive Middle Ages. Anastasija Ropa

Notes on Contributors

 

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Colloque : Using the Past for the Present : Medieval Narratives in Modern Political and Religious Discourse

Le colloque “Using the Past for the Present : Medieval Narratives in Modern Political and Religious Discourse” aura lieu les 28-29 mars 2025 à la John Cabot University (Vial della Lungara 233, Rome).

The conference aims to discuss the use of history for political and religious purposes, more specifically, the use of medieval narratives and traditions in the construction of political and religious visions in the modern era. Given the centrality of the Middle Ages in the development and dissemination of narratives aimed at the creation–or denial–of national and religious identities, the effects of which are long-lasting and touch the contemporary world as well, the conference aspires to re-discuss the importance of analyzing and understanding the past, especially the “medieval” past, in constructing the present.

The event is sponsored by John Cabot University’s Office of the President, Department of History and Humanities and the Guarini Institute, and co-sponsored by the Democracy Institute of the Central European University, Budapest/Vienna.

 

Programme

Friday, March 28, 9:30-10:00. Aula Magna

Welcome Remarks

Fabrizio Conti, John Cabot University

Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri, University of Urbino Carlo Bo

Serena Di Nepi, Sapienza University of Rome

Umberto Longo, Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo and Sapienza University of Rome

 

10:00-11:00. Aula Magna

Opening Keynote Lecture

“False Memories, Invented Histories, and the Historian’s Obligation to the Past and Present”

Patrick Geary, Institute for Advanced Study – Princeton

 

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

 

Friday, March 28, 11:30-13:30. Aula Magna

Medievalism and Nation Building between Western and Eastern Europe

Chair: Tommaso Zerbi, Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom – Max Weber Stiftung

Salvatore Liccardo, ERC Synergy Grant HistoGenes – University of Vienna, “Myth and History of the Antes: An Origin Story between Imperial Rhetoric, Marxism, Nation Building, and Eurasianism”

Donato Sitaro, University of Naples “Federico II”, “Teutonic Brothers and Aggressive Aborigines: Nineteenth-century Attitudes Towards the End of Roman Britain”

Huub Kurstjens, Dutch Institute for Educational Measurement, “Frederick II: From Mythomoteur to Mythophantom: Identity, Mythologization, Nationalism and Regionalism”

 

Friday, March 28, 11:30-13:30. GK11

State Formation and Nationalism between Western Europe and Russia

Chair: Vincenzo Tedesco, University of Messina / Central European University – Budapest/Vienna

Olga Kalashnikova, CEU Democracy Institute / University of Turin, “Eternal History of Rus(sia): Rurik and the Myth of State Formation in Russian Political Discourse (2011-2024)”

Carlos Llamedo Gutiérrez, Sorbonne Université, “Russia, France and Spain. A Proposal for a Comparative Study in the Medieval Turn of Modern-Day Nationalism”

Olga Kozubska, Central European University – Budapest/Vienna / Institute of Comparative Urban History (IStG) Münster, “Magdeburg Law: Medieval Phenomenon in the Public Memory and Political Discourse of modern Ukraine”

 

Friday, March 28, 11:30-13:30. GK12

The Iberian Peninsula

Chair: Eszter Salgó, John Cabot University

Ayse Naz Bulamur, Boğaziçi University, “Rendering the Spanish Civil War as Medieval”

Pedro Martins, NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities – Lisbon, “The uses of the Middle Ages in Contemporary Portuguese Right-Wing Nationalist and Far-Right Movements: The Cases of Chega and Reconquista”

Paula Almeida Mendes, University of Porto, “Political Uses of the Medieval Past in Portugal: Espelho de Lusitanos (1643) by António Veloso de Lira and the Legitimation of Power”

Alessandro Micocci, University of Genoa, “The Myth of the “Good” Colonial Portuguese from the Reconquista to Tourism Rebranding. The Monuments in Lisbon and the Defense of the Medieval Stereotypes in Contemporary Portugal”

 

Friday, March 28, 15:00-16:30. GK11

Architecture and Building

Chair: Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri, University of Urbino Carlo Bo

Guido Zucconi, IUAV – Venice, “Shaping a New National Style for Unified Italy: the Middle Ages as a Main Source and the Building of the New City Halls”

Irene Giustina, University of Brescia, “Between Civic Memory and Progress. Neo-medieval Public Architectural Culture in Brescia through Some Exemplary Works of Antonio and Giovanni Tagliaferri”

Naomi Ruth Pitamber, Clark University, “Culturally Definitive, Yet Divisive: The Architectural and Religious Heritage of al-Haram al-Sharif / Temple Mount in Jerusalem”

Cosmin Minea, Masaryk University, “Old Buildings for Modern Times: The Revival of the Past Through Restoration of Monuments in Romania and Serbia in the Late 19th Century”

 

Friday, March 28, 15:00-16:30. GK12

The Reuse of Medieval Narratives in Early-Modern Times

Chair: Giulia Lovison, Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa

Michele Camaioni, Roma Tre University, “A Matter of Precedence. Early Modern Franciscans and the Use of Medieval Past in the Controversy on Missions in America and China with the Jesuits (XVII cent.)”

Vincenzo Tedesco, University of Messina / Central European University – Budapest/Vienna, “Reusing Hagiographies for Political and Religious Purposes. The case of Trajan’s Legend Between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance”

Tommaso Somigli Russotto, University of Milano-Bicocca, “Crusade, Peace, and Freedom: Narratives and Strategies of the “Italian Wars”

Hanna Feuer, Central European University – Budapest/Vienna, “The Emperor Beneath the Papal Foot: The Legend of Frederick Barbarossa and Pope Alexander III in the Context of the German Reformation”

 

Friday, March 28, 15:00-16:30. GK13

Political Identities Across the Two Sides of the Adriatic Sea

Chair: Vincent Ferré, Sorbonne Nouvelle University (Paris 3)

Izidor Janžekovič, Harvard University, “The Nationalistic History and Archaeology in Mid-War and Post-War Yugoslavia”

Şerban V. Marin, National Archives of Romania, “Clash of Civilizations in Venice. The Case of Attila”

Igor Vranić, University of Zagreb, “Medieval Narratives as Tools for Daily Political Struggles: The Role of Historiography in Early 20th Century Zagreb”

 

16:30-17:00 Coffee Break

 

Friday, March 28, 17:00-18:30. GK13

Medieval Narratives in the Russian Context

Chair: Olga Kalashnikova, CEU Democracy Institute / University of Turin

Dmitry V. Shlapentokh, Indiana University, “Medieval Discourse of Alexander Dugin”

Aleksandr V. Rusanov, Bielefeld University, “‘Ours’” and ‘Aliens’, Politicized and Depoliticized Middle Ages in Russian Local Memorial Practices”

Anna Zadora, Strasbourg University, “Perestroika and the First References on Belarusian History”

 

Friday, March 28, 17:00-18:30. GK12

Interplay of Religious, Cultural, and Political Narratives

Chair: Naomi Ruth Pitamber, Clark University

Pankaj Kumar Singh, Ambedkar University, “Contested Sacred Topographies and Political Mobilization: The Role of Medieval Temple Desecration Narratives in Contemporary Indian Politics”

Antonio Cuciniello, Università Cattolica Milan, “Christian-Muslim Dialogue: Between Past History and Present History”

Tommaso Zerbi, Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom – Max Weber Stiftung, “A Tale of Three Empires: Architecture, Rome, and the Cultural Politics of Historicism from the British to Mussolini”

 

Friday, March 28, 17:00-18:30. GK11

Medievalism and Music, Philosophy, Economy

Chair: Fabrizio Conti, John Cabot University

Paolo Prato, John Cabot University and Roma Tre University, “The Discreet Charm of Revival: The Middle Ages Reinvented in Popular Music (A Brief Love Affairs in the Seventies)”

Alexander Jordan, Metropolitan University Prague, “Thomas Carlyle’s Medievalism Reconsidered”

Alessandro Signorini, John Cabot University, “From Medieval Guilds to modern AI: Historical Parallels in Managing Innovation Resistance and Employment Disruption”

 

Friday, March 28, 19:00-20:00. GK11

Keynote Lecture

“The Modern Uses of Medieval and Renaissance Narratives of Enslavement and Sexual Violence”

Tamar Herzig, Tel Aviv University

 

Saturday, March 29, 10:00-11:00. Aula Magna

Keynote Lecture

“Political Time Traveling – Middle Ages Reloaded: Hungarian and Russian Examples”

Gábor Klaniczay, Central European University – Budapest/Vienna

 

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

 

Saturday, March 29, 11:30-13:30. Aula Magna

Medieval Narratives in Modern Political Discourse

Chair: Alessandro Micocci, University of Genoa

Balázs Nagy, Eötvös Loránd University, “The Mongol Invasions in the Discourse of the Twentieth-Century Hungarian Politics”

Nelson Lewis Bennett, Central European University – Budapest/Vienna, “A Fictional Narrative, A Real Call to Arms: The Clash of Civilizations Narrative Reimagined for the American Alt-Right”

Felipe Brandi, NOVA University – Lisbon, “The Medievalist Historian and the Political Uses of History. On Georges Duby and His Campaign Against Right-Wingers”

 

Saturday, March 29, 11:30-13:30. Boardroom

Religious, Political, and Literary Narratives

Chair: Huub Kurstjens, Dutch Institute for Educational Measurement

Luca Barison, Georgetown University, “Barbarians at the Gates, Barbarians Inside the Gates. The Wewelsburg and the Nazi Barbaric Middle Ages”

Levente Seláf, Eötvös Loránd University, “The Defamation of Charity. The Posthumous Sufferings of Saint Martin in the Mouth of Hungarian Populist Propaganda”

Elodie Burle-Errecade, Aix-Marseille University, “A Middle Ages Under the Magnifying Glass: Enlarging to Reveal”

 

Saturday, March 29, 11:30-13:30. G11

Medievalism and Politics in Comparative Perspectives

Chair: Fabrizio Conti, John Cabot University

Claire Dillon, American Academy in Rome and Columbia University, “Constructing Mediterranean Medievalism in Italian Africa”

Ibrahim Al-Marashi, California State University San Marcos, “Saddam as Crusader”

Ansil Kanjirathinkal Muhammed, Jawaharlal Nehru University – New Delhi, “From Hyderabad to ‘Bhagyanagar’: A Modern Perspective on Urban Nomenclature, Political Contestation, and Cultural Memory”

 

Saturday, March 29, 15:00-16:30. GG1

Identity Formation Through Folklore and Art

Chair: Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri, University of Urbino Carlo Bo

Giulia Lovison, Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa, “Do Witches Still Exist? Politics, Religion, and Society”

Francesca Vera Romano, Deputazione di Storia Patria per la Lucania, “Superstition and Identity: Ecclesiastical Authorities and Greek Minorities in Early Modern Southern Italy”

Marina Bernardi, Roma Tre University – UPEC Paris Créteil, “Antonello da Messina: Painter, Saviour and Saint. Recovering the Memory of Messina, Promoting Sicilian Identity”

 

Saturday, March 29, 15:00-16:30. G11

Medievalism in Literature

Chair: Levente Seláf, Eötvös Loránd University

Davide Iacono, PRIN “Framing Medievalism” –

University of Urbino Carlo Bo, “‘Disarmato, l’umile sarà ulteriormente umiliato’: Medievalism and Political Struggle in the Eymerich Cycle by Valerio Evangelisti”

Giancarlo Tursi, University of California Santa Barbara, “Dante, Prophet of Fascism”

Fiona McIntosh-Varjabédian, University of Lille, “Medieval Communal Freedom: The Political and Literary Stakes of Another Tradition of Freedom”

Hugo Lacoue-Labarthe, Sorbonne Nouvelle University, “Translating, Rewriting and Editing the Eddas, a Necessarily Political Endeavour? From Tolkien to the Contemporary French Editorial Field”

 

Saturday, March 29, 15:00-16:30. Boardroom

The Balkans

Chair: Balázs Nagy, Eötvös Loránd University

Tea Hodaj, Universität Flensburg, “Medieval Narratives, Ottoman Legacy, and the Balkan Conflicts of the 90s: A Historical Continuum”

Domagoj Krpan, University of Rijeka, “King Tomislav and Gregory of Nin in Modern Croatian Discourse”

Dženan Dautović, University of Tuzla, “The Most Potent Tool: The Use and Abuse of the Bosnian Church in Political Systems of Modern Bosnia and Herzegovina”

 

16:30-17:00 – Coffee Break

 

Saturday, March 29, 17:00-19:30. Aula Magna

Student Presentations / Final Roundtable Discussion

Concluding Remarks

 

Colloque : Medievalisms of the Margins

Le colloque international “Medievalisms of the Margins”, organisé par Thomas Mohnike et Tatiana Victoroff, aura lieu à l’Université de Strasbourg du 27 au 29 mars 2025. Il accueillera également l’Assemblée générale de Modernités médiévales le jeudi 27 mars à 18h.

Programme

March 27 – Medievalism Across Cultures and Heritage Politics

 09:00 – 09:30. Welcome : Thomas Mohnike, Tatiana Victoroff

Medievalism and Heritage Politics in Eastern Europe

09:30 – 10:00. Yordan Lyutskanov – Medievalism medievality medieval studies and non-Latin Christendom

10:00 – 10:30. Olga Tabachnikova – New Middle Ages” of Berdyaev and “Old” Middle Ages on the Margins of Soviet Culture

10:30 – 11:00. Coffee Break

11:00 – 11:30. Raymond Detrez – Dealing with the Middle Ages: three approaches in three junctures

11:30 – 12:00. Rafał Quirini-Popławski – Ambiguous perception of the Genoese heritage at the Black Sea

12:00 – 14:00. Lunch Break

Medievalist Interpretations and Global Narratives

14:00 – 14:30. Claudia Criveller – “Sensus et ars medici curant, non verbae sophistae”. A case study: Ivaz Lazhechnikov’s Basurman

14:30 – 15:00. Kristina Landa – Vita nova in the new life. Paratexts to Dante’s first book in post-revolutionary Russia

15:00 – 15:30. Barbara Lomagistro (Università di Firenze) – Medieval religious topics in Balkan-Slavic discourses of identity

15:30 – 16:00. Coffee Break

16:00 – 16:30. Justine Breton – A Bridge Between Medievalist Traditions: The Witcher, From Poland to the Rest of the World

16h30-17h. Camille-Apollonia Narducci : Aux confins de l’Europe : une troisième voie médiévaliste chez Andrus Kivirähk ?

18:00. Assemblée Générale Modernités médiévales. Lien de connexion. 

20:00. Diner

March 28 –      Nordic Myths and Medievalist Narratives

Norse Mythology and Revival in Art, Architecture, and Fantasy

09:00 – 09:30. Susan Filoche-Romme – Making Norse Gods from Graeco-Roman Models: Danish Artists

09:30 – 10:00. Tonje Haugland Sørensen – A discovery of dragons – Norse Revival Architecture

10:00 – 10:30. Solenne Guyot – Viking Fantasies in Ibsen’s Dramas

10:30 – 11:00. Coffee Break

11:00 – 11:30. Alexandre Zeitler – De Bergslien à Norrøna: construction of Birkebeiner motif in Norwegian friluftsliv

11:30 – 12:00. Simon Halink – ‘Now comes the North!’ The Viking as a contemporary symbol of regional otherness.

12:00 – 14:00. Lunch Break

Vikings outside Scandinavia 

14:00 – 14:30. Martin Theiller – The Sea-Kings of Britain

14:30 – 15:00. Ciaran McDonough – Vikings in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

15:00 – 15:30. Gylfi Gunnlaugsson – Integrating the Periphery: Iceland in Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué’s works

15:30 – 16:00. Coffee Break

At the crossroads of Slavic and Norse myths

16:00 – 16:30. Szczur Przemyslaw – Le Moyen Âge polonais dans les romans historiques transnationaux polono-français de l’époque romantique

16:30 – 17:00. Giuseppina Giuliano – The poem Olind i Sofronija by Aleksandr Šachovskoj

17:00 – 17:30. Tatiana Victoroff – Les mythes scandinaves médiévaux et l’Age d’argent russe : Velga, « légende nordique » d’Ivan Bounine

18:30 – 19:30. Cultural Evening Event: Jon Fosse Night – Reading performance by Scandinavian Studies students

March 29 : Fantasy, Borders, and the Legacy of Medievalism

Medievalism Reimagined: Literature, Fantasy, and Global Narratives

09:00 – 09:30. Riva Evstifeeva & Sara Dickinson – Ossian, entre toge et cotte de mailles : le choix des genres littéraires dans la réception européenne du cycle ossianique (XVIIIe et XIXe siècles)

09:30 – 10:00. Florian Besson – Un Moyen Âge à saveur orientale ?

10:00 – 10:30. Martin Carayol – Les mythèmes dans les jeux de rôle médiévaux- fantastiques

10:30 – 11:00. Coffee Break

11:00 – 11:30. Teiko Nakamaru – Shingeki no Kyojin by Hajime Isayama as a reception of Norse mythology

11:30 – 12:00. Valentin Feix – Rien n’est vrai, tout est permis : la représentation de l’Orient et son évolution dans Assassin’s Creed

12:00 – 12:30. Pierre-Brice Stahl – L’imaginaire de l’âge viking, une altérité identitaire

12:30. Closing remarks

 

Parution : Medievalisms and Russia

Eugene Smelyansky, Medievalisms and Russia. The Contest for Imaginary Pasts, coll. Arc Medievalist, ARC Humanities Press, 2024.

This new monograph devoted to a detailed exploration of the ways in which the medieval past has been wielded to propagandic effect in Imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet Russia.

From politicians’ speeches to popular culture, from Orthodox Christianity to neo-paganism, the medieval Russian past remains crucial in constructing national identity, mobilizing society during times of crisis, and providing alternative models of communal belonging. Frequent appeals to a medieval Slavic past, its heroes and myths, have provided—and continue to provide—a particularly powerful tool for animating imperialist and populist sentiments.

This study explores persuasive—and pervasive—recourse to tropes concerned with the Middle Ages in Imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet Russia, seeking to explain why an often romanticized medieval past remains potent in Russian politics, society, and culture today.

 

Table des matières

Introduction

Chapter One: A Contested Inheritance: Medieval Rus and Russia’s Origin Myths

Chapter Two: Alexander Nevsky: The Once and Future Prince

Chapter Three: Byzantine Dreams: Russia as the “Third Rome”

Chapter Four: Medievalism as Allegory: The Middle Ages in Unofficial Culture

Conclusion

Select Bibliography

Index

 

Informations et commandes sur le site de l’éditeur.

Tatiana Victoroff (Université de Strasbourg)

Tatiana Victoroff est maître de conférences (HDR) en littérature comparée à l’Université de Strasbourg.

Elle est l’auteur de l’ouvrage Anna Akhmatova. Requiem pour l’Europe (Infolio, 2010) et de multiples travaux sur le renouveau du genre du mystère aux XIXe-XXIe siècles, depuis sa thèse (Typologie du genre du Mystère dans les dramaturgies anglaise et russe de la 1ère moitié du XX siècle : Ch. Williams, D. Sayers, Ch. Fry et E. Kuzmina-Karavaeva), jusqu’à l’ouvrage Mystère en Europe, de Mallarmé à Brodsky (à paraitre aux éditions Classiques Garnier). La résurgence du mystère est analysée dans ses formes théâtrales (Mallarmé, Hofmannsthal, P. Claudel, T.-S. Eliot, F. Lorca, A. Blok), musicales (R. Wagner, A. Scriabine, C. Debussy), picturales (J. Delville, N. Roerich, W. Kandinsky), chorégraphiques (A. Benois, R. Steiner, P. Valéry), cinématographiques (S. Eisenstein, W. Wenders, A. Tarkovsky) et, dans la modernité la plus récente, à la croisée de tous les arts chez Bill Viola.

Elle s’intéresse également au phénomène du médiévalisme  dans les pays d’Europe de l’Est, en particulier dans l’œuvre de Venko Andanovski et Lászlo Krasznahorkai mais aussi autour de la « fantasy slave » qui se développe dans le sillage du Seigneur des Anneaux de Tolkien et du Trône de fer de George R.R. Martin.   

Elle est l’auteur de la notice sur « La Russie » dans le Dictionnaire du Moyen Age imaginaire. Le médiévalisme, hier et aujourd’hui (sous la dir. de Anne Besson, William Blanc et Vincent Ferré, Vendémiaire, 2022), ainsi que d’articles sur les travaux théoriques des émigrés russes sur le médiévalisme en Europe (Eugène Vinaver, George Fedotov, Mirra Loth-Borodina).

Voir la présentation et la liste des travaux sur le site de l’UR 1337 « Configurations Littéraires » de l’Université de Strasbourg.

Parution: Medievalism in Finland and Russia

Reima Välimäki (dir.), Medievalism in Finland and Russia. Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Aspects, Bloomsbury, 2022.

Since the end of the Cold War, the Middle Ages has returned to debates about history, culture, and politics in Northern and Eastern Europe. This volume explores political medievalism in two language areas that are crucial to understanding global medievalism but are, due to language barriers, often inaccessible to the majority of Western scholars and students.

The importance of Russian medievalism has been acknowledged, but little analysed until now. Medievalism in Finland and Russia offers a selection of chapters by Russian, Finnish and American scholars covering historiography, presidential speeches, participatory online discussions and the neo-pagan revival in Russia. Finland is currently even more poorly understood than Russia in the discussions about global medievalism. It is usually mentioned only as of the birthplace of the Soldiers of Odin. The street patrol is, however, a marginal phenomenon in Finnish medievalism as this volume demonstrates. Instead of merely adopting the medievalist interpretation of the international alt-right, even the right-wing populists in Finland refer more to the nationalistic medievalist tradition, where crusades do not mark a Western Christian victory over the Muslim East, but a Swedish occupation of Finnish lands. In addition to presenting particular cases of medievalism, the chapters here on Finland challenge and diversify today’s prevailing interpretation of shared online medievalism of European and American right-wing populists.

This book reveals that while medievalisms in Finland and Russia share many features with the contemporary Anglo-American medievalist imaginations, they also display many original characteristics due to particular political situations and indigenous medievalist traditions. They have their own meta-medievalisms, cumulative core ideas and interpretations about the medieval past that are thoroughly examined here in English for the very first time.

 

Table des matières

List of Illustrations
Preface
1. Introduction: Historical Authority in Political Medievalism. Andrew B. R Elliott (University of Lincoln, UK)
2. Middle Ages on the Map of the Memory of Russian Society. Evgenii Rostovtsev (Saint Petersburg State University, Russia)
3. References to Medieval History in the Speeches and Addresses of the President of Russia, 2000-2019. Kati Parppei (University of Eastern Finland, Finland)
4. Circulation of Pseudo-Information: Medievalist Internet Discussions in Contemporary Russia. Mila Oiva (University of Turku, Finland)
5. Pseudo-Medievalist Histories and Contemporary Russian Identity Construction. Evan Wallace (University of Central Florida, USA)
6. Memorials dedicated to the Middle Ages in Finland. Sirpa Aalto & Timo Ylimaunu (University of Oulu, Finland)
7. The Missing Finnish Runestones. Kendra Wilson (University of Turku, Finland)
8. Icelandic Sagas and the Viking Age in Finnish Pseudohistory. Harri Hihnala (University of Turku, Finland)
9. Masculine Online Medievalism in 21st-century Finland. Heta Aali (University of Turku, Finland)
10. Particularizing the Universal: Medievalist Constructions of Cultural and Religious Difference in the Crusader Kings IIJere Kyyrö (University of Turku, Finland)
Index

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Appel: Medievalism in Russia and Ukrainian Political Discourses

Conférence en ligne organisée à l’occasion du 58e International Congress on Medieval Studies, du 11 au 13 mai 2023.

Date limite d’envoi des propositions: 15 septembre 2022.

Medievalism has been a common, and hardly innocent practice, in both Russian and Ukrainian political discourse ever since the dissolution of the USSR in the 1990s. Both Russia and Ukraine have laid claims to the prominent historical figures of the Kievan/Kyivan Rus’, and the recent military conflict has led to renewed interest in the history of medieval Rus’. Our aim is to establish fruitful and respectful critical dialogue of this sensitive issue among scholars coming from various cultural backgrounds with an interest in Slavic studies, medievalism and the use of medieval history in public discourse, working in all relevant disciplines.

All proposals should be submitted via Confex proposal portal (icms.confex.com/icms/2023/cfp.cgi).

The deadline for submission is Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022.

In the meantime, please feel free to get in touch with the session organizer Dr Anastasija Ropa (Anastasija.ropa [at] lspa.lv) if you would like to propose a paper or moderate the round table.