862 - 1169 (1240)
Ideas, Events, Dates, and Dilemmas
- Dvoreverie - Week 1
- double faith. LectureNotes #nl:p. Text: pp.
- Metropolitans - Week 1
- LectureNotes #nl:p. Text: pp.
- Byliny - Week 1
- Epic poems. LectureNotes #1d:3b. Text: pp.
- Chronicles - Week 1
- LectureNotes #1d:3b. Text: 52-3.
- Cryllic alphabet - Week 1
- St. Cyril and St. Methodius created the Cryllic alphabet, which allowed the Kievan Rus to read the Bible in their spoken tongue. Church Slavonic. LectureNotes #1d:3b. Text: 50.
- 862 - Week 2a
- Prince Riurik went to Novgorod. LectureNotes #2a:6. Text: pp.
- 862-988 - Week 1
- first era of Kievan Rus. LectureNotes #nl:p. Text: pp.
- 954 - Week 1
- Olga converted to Christianity. LectureNotes #nl:p. Text: pp.
- 957 - Week 1
- Olga went to Constantinople. LectureNotes #nl:p. Text: pp.
- 988 - Week 1
- Vladimir converted all of Kievan Rus to Orthodox Christianity; married Anna, the sister of Basil II, thus making this conversion a political as well as a religious event. LectureNotes #nl:p. Text: pp.
- 988-1132 - Week 1
- second era of Kievan Rus. Apex is under Iaroslav the Wise, 1019-1054. LectureNotes #nl:p. Text: pp.
- 1015-1019 - Week 1
- Civil War, following the death of Vladimir; the victor was Iaroslav the Wise. LectureNotes #nl:p. Text: pp.
- 1037 - Week 1
- St. Sophia is built in KievLectureNotes #nl:p. Text: pp.
- 1061 - Week 1
- first attack by the Polovtsy. LectureNotes #nl:p. Text: pp.
- 1097 - Week 1
- the surviving princes met, and agreed that sons should inherit, rather than brothers, except for Kiev. LectureNotes #nl:p. Text: pp.
- 1132-1240 - Week 1
- third era of Kievan Rus; decline and fall; Kiev was sacked in 1169 by Andrei Bogoliubskii, again in 1203, and finally destroyed in 1240 by the Mongols . LectureNotes #1e:2. Text: pp.
- 1169 - Week 1
- Kiev was sacked by Andrei Bogoliubskii, prince of Rostov & Suzdal; he moved the capital to Vladimir. LectureNotes #1e:2. Text: pp.