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The Byzantine Charm Defensive and the Rus (2024)
Book Chapter
White, M. (2024). The Byzantine Charm Defensive and the Rus. In S. Jakobsson, T. Jonsson Hraundal, & D. Segal (Eds.), The Making of the Eastern Vikings (47-62). Turnhout: Brepols Publishers

White Early Rus: The Nexus Of Empires (2024)
Book Chapter
White, M. (2024). White Early Rus: The Nexus Of Empires. In Picturing Russian Empire (19-25). Oxford: Oxford University Press (OUP)

THE EAST SLAVS did not always inhabit an empire. At the dawn of East Slavic history in the tenth century, human settlement in the forested zone of eastern Europe consisted of a collection of loosely connected, fortified towns known as Rus. Although a... Read More about White Early Rus: The Nexus Of Empires.

Leo VI and the Transformation of Byzantine Strategic Thinking about the Rus'1 (2023)
Book Chapter
White, M. (2023). Leo VI and the Transformation of Byzantine Strategic Thinking about the Rus'1. In S. Torres Prieto, & A. Franklin (Eds.), Medieval Rus’ and Early Modern Russia: Texts and Contexts (3-14). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003256236-2

The arrival of the Rus’ in the Dnieper region in the mid-9th century gradually led to a reappraisal of relations on the part of the established Byzantine Empire. Where initially the newcomers were considered to be of little strategic importance, stil... Read More about Leo VI and the Transformation of Byzantine Strategic Thinking about the Rus'1.

Early medieval sources (2020)
Book Chapter
WHITE, M. (2020). Early medieval sources. In G. Gilbert (Ed.), Reading Russian Sources: A Student's Guide to Text and Visual Sources from Russian History (19-34). London: Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351184175

The early medieval period (c. 1000–1325) witnessed the beginning of many institutions and processes which profoundly shaped the history of Eastern Europe, including the acceptance of Eastern-rite Christianity, the first flowering of East Slavonic wri... Read More about Early medieval sources.

Late Byzantine views of Rus: a reassessment (2018)
Journal Article
White, M. (2018). Late Byzantine views of Rus: a reassessment. Byzantinoslavica, 2018(1-2), 84-99

The late Byzantine empire maintained close ties with the principalities of Rus, but these have been studied almost exclusively in the context of the crises surrounding the appointments of rival metropolitans for the East Slavonic lands in the mid- to... Read More about Late Byzantine views of Rus: a reassessment.

Structural mobilities in the global Middle Ages (2018)
Journal Article
Standen, N., & White, M. (2018). Structural mobilities in the global Middle Ages. Past and Present, 238(Suppl. 13), 158-189. https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gty026

Relics and the Princely Clan in Rus (2016)
Book Chapter
White, M. (2016). Relics and the Princely Clan in Rus. In F. Androshchuk, J. Shepard, & M. White (Eds.), Byzantium and the Viking WorldActa Universitatis Upsaliensis

The “grave covering” of St Demetrios between Byzantium and Rus (2014)
Journal Article
White, M. (2014). The “grave covering” of St Demetrios between Byzantium and Rus

Much scholarly attention has focused on the role of St Demetrios in the maintenance of the civic identity and cultural independence of Thessalonika, the Byzantine Empire’s second city. Yet Thessalonika did not always win this struggle with Constantin... Read More about The “grave covering” of St Demetrios between Byzantium and Rus.