Review: Ivakin H., Khrapunov N., Seibt W. (eds). 2015. Byzantine and Rus' Seals. Proceedings of the International Colloquium on Rus'—Byzantine Sigillography. Kyiv, Ukraine, 13-16 September 2013. Kyiv: Sheremetiev's Museum Cover Image

Рецензия на книгу: Ivakin H., Khrapunov N., Seibt W. (eds). 2015. Byzantine and Rus' Seals. Proceedings of the International Colloquium on Rus'—Byzantine Sigillography. Kyiv, Ukraine, 13-16 September 2013. Kyiv: Sheremetiev's Museum
Review: Ivakin H., Khrapunov N., Seibt W. (eds). 2015. Byzantine and Rus' Seals. Proceedings of the International Colloquium on Rus'—Byzantine Sigillography. Kyiv, Ukraine, 13-16 September 2013. Kyiv: Sheremetiev's Museum

Author(s): Serghei B. Sorochan, Alexandr A. Romensky
Subject(s): History
Published by: Нижневартовский государственный университет
Keywords: Byzantium; Rus; seals; sphragistics

Summary/Abstract: The materials of International Colloquium on Byzantine and Old Rus’ sphragistics are considered. Data of the new sources introduced in a scientific circulation. The volume consists of four parts: “Byzantine Seals: Publication”, “Byzantine Seals and the World Around”, “Seals of Rus’”, “Post-Byzantine Seals”. The researchers have been analyzed new sphragistic findings of Crimea, Taman, byzantine imperial seals of Southern Rus, seals of Bulgaria and Sicily. The monuments of Old Rus sphragistics are also attracted. The source material allows us to refine the reconstruction of the past of some regions of the “Byzantine commonwealth”, to trace their connections, add new touches to prosopography and onomastics, language history and history of the Church of the Byzantine world. The symbolic context and importance of images on the seals, the impact and reception of Byzantine models in Eastern Europe, the Greek seals of the Early Modern Period are also analyzed.