Volodimer the Bold: a Counter-factual History of Eleventh-Century Rus'
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[1] Wittenberg University
Wittenberg University
City of Springfield, Estados Unidos
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- Localización: Russian History, ISSN 0094-288X, Vol. 44, Nº. 2-3, 2017, págs. 398-410
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
One of the ways that we can profitably discuss what happened in the past is, counterintuitively, by asking not just “why did x happen" but “what if x did not happen?" Attempting to answer such a question involves an in-depth inquiry into the surrounding events and requires the historian to question the underlying causes of a whole host, indeed a spreading wave, of events that all might be affected by one particular change. This article posits the idea that if Volodimer, the eldest son of Iaroslav the Wise had lived to inherit – Rusian and even medieval European more broadly, history would be changed
